Oral surgery is a dental specialty that deals with diagnosis and surgical treatments in the oral cavity and jaw.
What all falls under oral surgery:
- tooth extraction,
- resection (apicotomy) of the tooth root,
- frenectomy,
- leveling of the alveolar ridge.
Apicotomy/Resection: A surgical procedure used to treat teeth with root tip infections when conventional root canal treatment has not been successful.
Frenectomy: It is used in children and young people as preparation for teeth straightening or in edentulous patients as preparation for total dentures.
Alveolar ridge leveling: A procedure performed to flatten sharp areas of bone.
It is important to note that these procedures are performed with strict adherence to hygiene and sterilization standards to ensure the safety of the clients themselves. Before any oral surgical procedure, clients usually consult with our specialist to get an accurate diagnosis and discuss a treatment plan. Oral surgery plays a key role in maintaining oral health and solving various oral problems and conditions. After the problem has been established and the diagnosis has been established, you and an expert from our Smile Time team will be introduced to the process and procedure that is advised as a solution to the problem.
Tooth extraction
Tooth extraction is a dental intervention that removes a tooth from the jaw. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia, so it is completely painless. You have no reason to worry or be nervous, the procedure is completely painless for you after local anesthesia.
Tooth extraction can be:
Simple tooth extraction – the procedure is performed under local anesthesia, the tooth is completely extracted from the jaw in one step;
Complicated tooth extraction – most often it can happen in multi-rooted teeth with a broken crown, when due to the lack of dental pulp it is necessary to separate, i.e. separate the roots, to take them out one by one;
When is it necessary to surgically remove a tooth from the jaw?
With surgical extraction under local anesthesia, our oral surgeon from the Smile Time team accesses the tooth by freeing it from the surrounding gums and bone, then he takes out the tooth and sews up the gum with surgical thread. Surgical sutures are removed seven days after the procedure.
The intervention lasts from half an hour to an hour and is completely painless.
Recovery is quick after this procedure and does not require any additional downtime or further treatments.
Resection (apicotomy) of the tooth root
Root resection (apicotomy) is an oral surgical intervention that removes the process from the top of the tooth root and part of the top of the tooth root in order to preserve the tooth in the dental row.
If a tooth is not treated on time, or a complication of failed treatment leads to constant irritation in the bone around the tip of the tooth root, the organism defends itself from that irritation by forming a granuloma or cyst around the tip of the tooth root. Such changes can be painless for a long period of time. When they become inflamed, they cause severe pain and swelling. Such conditions require surgical treatment. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia by a specialist – oral surgeon, with sterile instruments under local anesthesia. The procedure itself is completely painless for you, since it is before the intervention itself applied local anesthesia. After this procedure, the tooth remains in the jaw and continues to perform its primary function.
Frenectomy
Leveling of the bone ridge
When is it necessary to level the bone ridge?
This procedure is most often used when bumps are created after the extraction of several teeth.
How does the problem occur?
After tooth extraction, the bone in that area resorbs (melts) because it is not functional. In situations where several teeth have been extracted, or all teeth at different times, bumps are created on the bone ridge.
Such a condition, if it is expressed, can lead to problems due to the production of prosthetic works. So that they don’t have problems for the installation of a bridge, crown or other planned prosthetic part, the leveling of the bone ridge is approached.
Bone ridge leveling is actually flattening bone that creates a problem for further planned procedures. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia, which guarantees the absence of pain. After the surgical intervention, the place is sutured with surgical thread. After seven days of the intervention, the threads are removed and further planned work can be started.
