Restore Your Oral Health with Dental Extractions and Bone Grafting
No one likes them, but dental extractions are necessary for dental care. While Divine Dental Center tries to save natural teeth as much as possible, sometimes dental extractions are unavoidable. For instance, impacted, severely damaged, or extra teeth are situations your beloved tooth may need to go.
Dr. Osayomore Eguakun has the skills and technology to ensure fast and seamless dental extractions. Whether you need standard or wisdom teeth extraction, trust our team for excellent dental care. Our team also offers bone grafting services to rebuild the jawbone after dental extraction.
Why do I need tooth removal?
We recommend tooth extraction as the last option. Otherwise, the dentist tries to save your tooth with fillings, crowns, and root canals. We recommend tooth extraction if leaving your tooth intact causes more harm than benefits.
Situations you’ll need dental extraction are:
- Severely damaged or decayed tooth
- An overly retained baby tooth
- An impacted or troublesome wisdom tooth
- Advanced gum disease
- Extra or overcrowded teeth
- To create space for orthodontic care
Dental extractions are routine in our office. Over time, our experienced dentist has refined the treatment to ensure a seamless procedure, whether you want simple or complex extractions. We have incorporated cutting-edge technology and personalized care into your treatment to minimize discomfort and maximize outcomes.
What should I know about bone grafting?
When we extract your tooth with its root, the jawbone loses the functional stimulation it received through chewing and grinding. This stimulation is crucial for maintaining healthy bone density. Without it, the bone begins to deteriorate and resorb over time, shrinking in height and width. This can affect the stability of surrounding teeth, alter facial structure, and complicate future dental procedures, such as implants.
Jawbone resorption is one of the key reasons why replacing missing teeth promptly is so important. However, when you delay replacing your tooth, we can rebuild your jawbone with bone grafting. This procedure involves placing a healthy graft on the area without teeth and leaving it to fuse with the jawbone over time.
What should I expect from dental extractions and bone grafting?
Both procedures are administered after numbing your gums with local anesthetics. However, if you are anxious about your treatment, you can talk to our dentist about sedation dentistry. Dental extractions can be simple or surgical. Simple extractions are ideal for teeth accessible in the mouth. Here, the dentist loosens and pulls the tooth in one piece.
Surgical extractions are more extensive and suitable for impacted teeth. The dentist incises the gums and removes a small amount of the underlying bone to access the ingrown tooth. Then, the dentist breaks the tooth into several pieces to minimize trauma to the surrounding structures during removal. The final step is to clean and stitch the wound to begin healing.
Like dental extractions, bone grafting is carried out without an overnight hospital stay.
The dentist carefully makes a small incision to access the underlying bone in your gums. Next, the bone graft is placed in the area of bone loss and stitched. Over the next few months, the bone graft will naturally integrate with your jawbone, promoting regeneration and strengthening the bone structure.
After dental extraction or bone grafting, the dentist will give you aftercare tips to ensure a swift recovery. Your post-op instructions include medications and home remedies to manage pain and prevent complications.
Do you need bone grafting or dental extraction services?
Divine Dental Center stays current on the latest techniques to ensure dental extractions and bone grafting are painless and seamless. If you need to learn more about our services in Murfreesboro, TN, contact us at (615) 200-1195.
