What do you know about wisdom teeth? These additional molars tend to arrive in our late teens and early 20s. We want to help prevent their arrival with tooth extraction, so you avoid impaction and other complications. In today’s blog, your Newport Beach, CA, oral surgeon talks about protecting smiles from wisdom teeth.
The Risks of Erupting Wisdom Teeth
As we approach adulthood, up to four new teeth could arrive. These molars will erupt in the rear of your teeth. The fact is, there is simply no room for them in most smiles, so their arrival could cause a partial eruption known as an impaction. The arrival of the teeth could also increase the risk of dental misalignment, infection, and injury. You could see the appearance, health, and function of your bite change in negative ways. This could even happen if you have recently undergone orthodontic treatment, reversing some of your results. But we can help you avoid these by removing your wisdom teeth before they even erupt.
Planning Tooth Extraction
Our team will conduct a detailed dental x-ray to identify the position of these new molars and assess the risk they pose for your smile. If one or all of them need to be removed, we can plan this process to help ensure no contact with blood vessels, nerve tissues, or sinus cavities, so the area can heal fast and you can avoid complications. Every smile is unique, so we always take a customized approach for our patients. To ensure the procedure is comfortable, we can numb the area where the extraction is taking place directly with a local anesthesia. Our team can also offer dental sedation to help you enter a deep state of calm and relaxation, with little to no memory of the process at all, even if you have dental anxiety about seeing us! We want to ensure the procedure is a comfortable experience for you.
Protecting Your Smile
Once we have planned the procedure in detail and taken steps to ensure your comfort, we will then gently open the gums above the wisdom teeth, so we can access and remove them with precision and comfort. Our team will then do so with a pair of forceps. Once these have been extracted, we will suture the area closed and provide aftercare instructions to ensure a clot forms and the area heals properly. Our team will also provide prescriptions for medications to help the area heal faster. We then schedule a follow-up visit to remove any sutures. If you have any questions, then contact our team today!
Talk To Balboa Dental Surgery About Tooth Extraction
We would like to help safeguard your smile by preventing the arrival of your wisdom teeth! To learn more about addressing third molars, or to schedule your appointment, contact your Newport Beach, CA oral surgeon at (949) 630-0143!
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