How Are Wisdom Teeth Removed
All Smiles Dental is a Newmarket dental office that deals with a variety of simple and complex dental issues for their Newmarket dental patients. From the most simple dental procedures and dental check ups done by your newmarket dentists all the way to the most complex cosmetic dental smile makeovers. Wisdom teeth extractions are also a part of what they do in their newmarket dental office. The highly experienced team headed by our award winning newmarket dentists take care of all these issues under one roof to insure that all of their newmarket dental patients don’t have drive around looking for other Newmarket dentists to be looked after. Wisdom teeth appear at the very back of the mouth when a person reaches his late teens or in his early 20s. They don’t serve a useful purpose so they are often removed. In some cases they may be crowding other teeth making them crooked, they may be impacted and not emerging or they may just be hard to reach for dental hygiene purposes.
The first step in assessing whether your wisdom teeth will need to be removed or not is to take an x-ray. If it is determined that the tooth or teeth must come out, there are different approaches that can be taken.
Many times a simple local anaesthetic is all that’s required. The area will be numbed before the extraction and when this is done properly the patient will only feel pressure and in some cases nothing at all.
Sedation may also be used for anxious patients that are worried about the procedure, for complicated extractions or for the removal of more than one tooth. It all depends on how much work must be done to remove the tooth and on the patient himself. Once the x-ray is examined, the dentist will go over the different options with the patient and together they will choose the best course of action. Best rated Newmarket dentists at all dental provide dental sedation, or sleep dentistry, at their Newmarket dental office to all of their dental patients who require this dental service.
Once the teeth have been pulled stitches will usually be put in to close the hole and to help with healing. The stitches dissolve over time and the patient won’t even notice they are there unless he runs his tongue over the area.
Fortunately, the mouth has incredibly fast healing power and as long as you follow the instructions that your dentist provides, you shouldn’t run into any problems at all. Right after the tooth is removed you will need to bite down on gauze for about 30 minutes. You will also be asked to avoid drinking and eating for the first two hours following the procedure. This gives the area treated time to clot.
All Smiles Dental is here to help you or someone you know who may be suffering from the growth of wisdom teeth in the Newmarket, Aurora, and Bradford areas. If you have wisdom teeth now or can feel them growing in, it’s time to schedule an appointment to determine whether it would be best to keep the teeth or have them pulled. Feel free to contact our office at 905.235.6999 or fill in the contact form on our website at www.allsmilesdentalcentres.ca to schedule a consultation.
