As a dentist, our principal objective is to protect your natural teeth and keep them strong for long. Sometimes, in a -few cases, it is important to have tooth extractions (remove) done. This could be the situation for many reasons. Maybe you have a tooth that has been seriously harmed by injury or decay or an affected wisdom tooth that may cause inconvenience to you later on.  In case your child has insignificant space for his grown-up teeth, called as crowding. Or on the other hand, your younger child has an infant tooth that is slowly erupting, and it’s coming late.

Types of tooth extraction

Simple extraction:

This is performed on a tooth that can be found in the mouth. The general dentist usually does basic extractions. In a simple extraction, the dentist extracts the tooth with an instrument called a lift. Sometimes, the dentist uses an instrument called forceps to remove the tooth.

Surgical extraction:

This is comparatively a difficult method, which is used if a tooth may have detached at the gum line or has not erupted in the mouth. Oral maxillofacial specialists normally perform this method; however senior dentist can perform them. The dentist makes a little cut into your gum to specifically remove the broken tooth or affected wisdom tooth. It might be important to remove a portion of the bone around the tooth or to slice the tooth down so as to extract it.  Most Surgical extraction utilizes local anesthesia; you might possibly get medications to enable you to recover. A few people —, for example, patients with plain medicinal or social conditions and children — may require general anesthesia.

After extraction

Immediately after the tooth is removed, the affected area will be covered with a sterile dressing to apply gentle weight for 10-20 minutes to control bleeding if any.  Little stitch can also be for the same reason. It’s normal to experience some mild to moderate post-extraction inconvenience or probably swelling. Taking non-steroidal, reducing pain medications, for example, ibuprofen (drug) and additionally headache medicine on the day of medical procedure can control generally side effects. We may recommend antibiotics for you to guarantee disease free recovery. Using ice packs from outside of your jaw and eating gentler food until you feel good, it can help in faster recovery. Within a couple of days, all inconvenience may return to normal.