| ORAL SURGERY & WISDOM TEETH |
DR. STEVEN T. CURRY DENTAL OFFICE |
| We routinely use Sedation services to assure comfortable, calm & relaxed surgeries for our patients |
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| ORAL SURGERY We provide oral surgery services for our patients, ranging from routine forceps extractions to surgical extractions. We also remove impacted wisdom teeth. As a general rule, teeth with more than one root or teeth with long roots surrounded by dense bone are best removed surgically. This approach allows us to provide gentler, more comfortable treatment and results in quicker, better healing for our patients. When more than one tooth is removed, we reshape and recontour the area to help it heal better. This alveoloplasty produces a smoother and more stable base for a partial or denture. Sometimes, a patient needing dentures has extra gum tissue or bony places in their mouths which might cause pain or make a denture unstable. We do pre-prosthetic corrections for these problems. |
| WISDOM TEETH Wisdom teeth start coming in when we are in our late teens to early 20's. Some people have no problem with them; but most of us simply don't have enough room for a third set of molars. When wisdom teeth start emerging there is usually pain, swelling, pressure; often accompanied by an "achy feeling" of the jaw that travels up into the ear. This, along with gum redness/swelling, can make it hard to brush teeth properly or chew food on the side that hurts. If they are locked in and can't grow normally, these impacted teeth can exert pressure on the roots of the teeth next to them, causing damage. Often, they have cysts around their roots which may cause bone loss around back teeth and be a source of infection. This can result in the loss of better, more useful molars. As a general rule, most wisdom teeth should be removed. |
| Why Do We Have Wisdom Teeth? Wisdom teeth were a good thing 1000 years ago when men ate unwashed food. The grit in early diets acted like sandpaper, to wear down teeth & create large gaps in between them. When teeth wore down, men couldn't survive: so for survival purposes, having an extra set of molars meant people could con- tinue to chew food & thereby live an extra 10-15 years. |
| OUR PATIENTS COMMENT: "He is gentle. I've never had a tooth extraction that easy." "I am so happy to have found him. He made sure I was comfortable when he pulled my tooth." |
