Tooth Extraction | Comprehensive Guide

Tooth Extraction | Comprehensive Guide

Tooth Extraction | Comprehensive Guide

Types of tooth extraction

There are two main types of tooth extraction, simple extraction and surgical/complex extraction. both are categorized depending on a number of factors. visibility of the tooth and condition of the tooth been extracted in the mouth.

Simple tooth extraction

It involves using an instrument called an elevator to loosen the tooth. The dentist will then pull the tooth out using forceps. Most of the time, you just need an injection of local anesthetic, but you can also receive a sedative if you are particularly nervous. You will be awake throughout the entire procedure, but you will feel no pain. The dentist will usually use a simple extraction when the tooth is visible in the mouth. To be sure this is an appropriate method, the dentist will first take X-rays of your teeth and ask you about your medical history, including whether you are currently taking any medications.

Surgical tooth extraction

You need a surgical extraction if your tooth is broken off at the gum line or it has not yet erupted. Only some general dentists are qualified to carry out surgical extractions, along with all oral surgeons. The process involves cutting a small incision into your gum to access the tooth. Sometimes, it is also necessary to remove some of the bone around the tooth or cut the tooth into pieces to extract it. This is most common with Molars and Wisdom teeth Extraction Although the procedure is more complex than a simple extraction, it is often possible to receive a surgical tooth extraction under local anesthetic. This may be administered through an injection or IV.

Tooth Extraction Procedure What to Expect.

The firsts step that precedes most Dental extractions is a radio graphic image of the tooth. When you visit our office on Highway 6 N Houston TX to have your tooth extracted, The Dentist will usually request a Dental Assistant to take a panoramic or 3d image of the tooth as necessary to better understand and visualize the condition of the tooth in the mouth. This X-ray is critical to help the Doctor plan and choose the best technique to safely remove the tooth.

  • Review of Xray’s

  • Physical Examination of the Patients Mouth

  • Patient Consent and Cost

  • Numbing the Patient

Numbing your mouth is the second step during your tooth extraction procedure. The Dentist will deliver a shot of anesthetic to your gum to numb your mouth, specifically the area around the which the tooth is to be extracted. If the patient has requested for sedation, iv sedation or nitro-us gas, this would be administered prior to the shot of anesthesia been delivered with a needle and syringe.

  • Removal of Soft Tissue (Surgical Extraction)

This simply means our doctor has to open your gums slightly to expose and safely remove the tooth. you would not even feel it. this is most common for wisdom teeth extraction, 3rd molars. So, if you are needing any other tooth pulled, most likely we would not need to do this.

  • Bone Trimming around the tooth if necessary (Surgical Extraction especially wisdom tooth Removal

  • sectioning the tooth (Surgical Extraction Only if needed)
  • Loosening the tooth and pulling it
  • placing stitches if needed especially if we had to raise a flap i.e., cut your gums open.
  • Bleeding control and swelling (post op)

Tooth Extraction process / Pulling the tooth

Using an Elevator and or a forceps the doctor will attempt to elevate the tooth out firmly rocking the tooth around in order to widen the socket for tooth removal. During the extraction process you will feel a lot of pressure. This is from the process of firmly rocking the tooth in order to widen the socket for removal. It is normal to feel the pressure but not pain as the anesthetic has numbed the nerves stopping the transference of pain, yet the nerves that transmit pressure are not profoundly affected. If you do feel pain at any time during the extraction please let us know right away and the Doctor will simply administer more dosage of anesthesia.

When it is a surgical extractions, usually the doctor would be required to section the tooth before pulling it out or removing some bone around the tooth.

Sectioning the tooth

When it is a surgical extraction, the Dentist cannot simply just pull the teeth out with an elevator or forceps usually the doctor would be required to section the tooth before pulling it out. often at times it might require that the gum be cut open and some bone around the teeth be removed before it can be successfully extracted. teeth sectioning is a very common procedure done when a tooth is so firmly anchored in its socket or the root is curved and the socket can’t expand enough to remove it. The doctor simply cuts the tooth into sections then removes each section one at a time.

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