Dental extractions are treatments that are performed when the dental is unrecoverable or its situation in the mouth can be harmful to the rest of the oral cavity.
What are dental extractions?
The extraction of the teeth should be the last solution that the dentist should assume in dentistry. Before the removal of a tooth, the health professional must exhaust the entire battery of treatments available to save and recover the affected tooth.
We have to keep in mind that tooth extraction entails irreversible and definitive loss of the tooth, so we must go to our trusted dentist to make a correct diagnosis of the treatment.
The most frequent cases we encounter when we have to perform a tooth extraction are:
Teeth with very severe destructions that cannot be reconstructed by the current conservative techniques.
Root remains of fractured teeth. Included or retained teeth that cannot erupt or that their rash causes damage to the surrounding teeth.
Teeth that have recurrent infections established in the bone.
Teeth that for dental or orthodontic reasons are harmful to the function of the oral cavity.
What are the teeth removal?
What care should be taken after a tooth extraction?
Dental extraction is, unfortunately, one of the most common treatments performed by the population.
Nowadays it is a painless treatment, since it is carried out under local anesthesia, and it does not usually lead to very annoying postoperative complications if a correct diagnosis and an impeccable execution of the tooth extraction have been made.
To avoid or minimize all these complications, it is important to follow precisely the postoperative instructions that your dentist tells you after you have performed the tooth extraction.
The most common postoperative complications that can occur after a tooth extraction are:
Inflammation and swelling of the area where the extraction has been carried out in the first 48 to 72 hours.
Bleeding from the extraction area.
Hematoma or bruises on the face or gum around the extracted tooth.
In complicated extractions, if the mouth has remained open for a long time, trismus or difficulty in opening the mouth may appear, due to contracture of the musculature that helps to open and close the jaw.
Fever and general malaise.
Rarely can alveolitis occur, or infection of the alveolus where the tooth was extracted. It is a painful complication that usually occurs 48 hours of the extraction and must be treated immediately by your dentist.
What are the postoperative instructions after a tooth extraction?
At Brisbane Dental after performing a dental extraction we offer our patients an explanation with the postoperative instructions that they must follow, in order to minimize the possible complications derived from the dental extraction. If all these indications are followed, tooth extraction will only be an annoying process that in a few days will subside without any consequences.
Bite a sterile gauze placed in the extraction area for about 30-60 minutes.
Do not spit or rinse your mouth for 24 hours, as the clot that is forming could come off and start bleeding again.
Eat soft foods at room temperature or cold through the area of the mouth that has not been operated on, once the effect of anesthesia has passed. Avoid eating hot foods.
Take the medication prescribed by your dentist and if you have any questions about it, contact him.
For the first 24 hours, maintain a posture in which the head is higher than the body. When sleeping, lift the pillow and protect it with a towel so as not to stain it with blood.
After the first 24 hours, rinse with water and salt, or infusion of thyme or a chlorohexidine mouthwash. A chlorhexidine gel can also be applied to the area where the extraction has been carried out.
It is important to maintain proper hygiene of the mouth so that the wound caused after extraction is not infected.
If any problems or doubts arise during these first few days, contact your dentist.
At Brisbane Dental we are aware that removing a tooth should be the last option, but sometimes it is inevitable. Therefore, it is advisable to go to the trusted dentist.
The extraction of the teeth should be the last solution that the dentist should assume in dentistry. Before the removal of a tooth, the health professional must exhaust the entire battery of treatments available to save and recover the affected tooth.
We have to keep in mind that tooth extraction entails irreversible and definitive loss of the tooth, so we must go to our trusted dentist to make a correct diagnosis of the treatment.
The most frequent cases we encounter when we have to perform a tooth extraction are:
Teeth with very severe destructions that cannot be reconstructed by the current conservative techniques.
Root remains of fractured teeth. Included or retained teeth that cannot erupt or that their rash causes damage to the surrounding teeth.
Teeth that have recurrent infections established in the bone.
Teeth that for dental or orthodontic reasons are harmful to the function of the oral cavity.
What are the teeth removal?
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