11 Jul Protecting Your Smile With A Safe And Gentle Extraction
When a tooth can no longer be treated with a filling or crown, then extraction could be necessary. Otherwise, the situation could lead to dental infection and major complications! But our team can provide a safe and gentle tooth extraction to help your smile. With our team of oral health experts in Lancaster, OH, we can protect your smile with a tooth extraction.
The Reasons to Remove a Tooth
When should we extract a tooth completely? As we touched on above, this could be necessary if a tooth is too damaged to be repaired with a crown, or if there is advanced decay or infection beyond treatment with a root canal. If a tooth is loosened by gum disease, we may need to extract it. We could also take out teeth to make room for orthodontic treatment, or to pave the way for a prosthetic, such as a bridge or denture. If you wisdom teeth soon to erupt, we could extract them before they do to protect your smile from painful impaction, misalignment, and other serious complications.
Ensuring Your Treatment is Comfortable
We know the idea of oral surgery, even a very minor oral surgery, can cause a little anxiety. This is especially true if you have a phobia of the dentist. But we can take steps to ensure you feel comfortable and relaxed during your visit. With a local anesthesia, we can numb the portion of the smile where the tooth is being extracted to keep you comfortable. To help patients with special needs, anxiety, or an overactive gag reflex, we could offer sedation to help you enter a deep state of calm, often with little to no memory of the procedure afterward. We want your experience to be a positive one, so you look forward to your next visit!
The Tooth Extraction Process
Our team will plan the procure in detail. With detailed digital x-rays and images of your smile, we can watch for blood vessels, sinus cavities, and nerve tissues, ensuring we never come into contact with them. When you are properly numb and sedated, we will then gently remove the tooth with a pair of forceps. The procedure could take as little as 30 minutes! We then suture the area closed, and will remove these in a follow-up visit. In the meantime, we will provide prescriptions for medications to ensure a complication-free healing period and comfort.
Find Out More About Our General Dental Procedures With Friendly Dental!
We want to help you preserve the health, beauty, and function of your smile! To learn more about the process of removing a tooth, give us a call at Friendly Dental Care in Lancaster, OH at (740) 687-6105!