The Science of Dentistry

If you’ve ever had a tooth extraction, you know the feeling of anxiety that comes over you, wondering what you can eat to comfort you from the pain. Many dentists would advice their patients to eat ice cream after the extraction.

Dental Bone Grafting Materials

As implant dentistry continues to evolve as an office based sub-specialty, it is now rare for patients to have hospital surgery for reconstructive dental bone grafting procedures prior to or during dental implant placement.  New biological materials are used for office based regenerative surgery and are considered a replacement for conventional autogenous block grafts.  They fall into the category of bone substitutes.

Each year, despite the risks of any surgical procedure, millions of healthy, asymptomatic wisdom teeth are extracted from young patients in the United States, often as they prepare to leave for college. 

Simple vs. Surgical Tooth Extraction

From a procedural or professional standpoint, a simple tooth extraction refers to removing a tooth in which the shape of the root or roots lends to easy removal. This usually involves teeth that have a single and straight root shape, which allow for a more or less straight path of tooth pulling.

Wisdom Teeth

If you are ever stuck at a party with nothing to talk about, you might mention that you’re having your wisdom teeth taken out. The very mention of these teeth can start a war of words, as people duke it out to prove that their oral surgery was indeed the worst experience ever. The details of this rite of passage are ingrained in each person’s mind, so you’ll hear lots of gory information — how one girl’s face swelled as big as a watermelon, how another girl battled dry sockets, how one fellow had to miss Christmas dinner because the only thing he could eat was Jell-O. 

Wisdom Teeth

The wisdom teeth are the teeth which are present in your mouth’s furthest back, one on each corner of your jaw (top and bottom); so four in total. Not everyone face trouble with their wisdom teeth but wisdom teeth pain is a common dental problem.  I hope this article will help you with wisdom tooth pain relief.

Platelet Rich Plasma

The use of platelet rich plasma treatment (PRP) after tooth removal appears to speed healing and bone formation, according to an article in the Journal of Oral Implantology. When a tooth is removed, poor healing can lead to excessive bone loss in the jaw that can delay tooth replacement, require costly reconstructive surgery, or even be impossible to fix, according to the authors. “Patients and clinicians could benefit if a cost-effective, simple technique were available that decreased bone-healing time and increased the predictability of favorable results,” they write.

Warfarin

This questions brings up two important topics: what do warfarin and other blood thinning medications do and what are the consequences for tooth removal or any other oral surgical procedures. Let’s take them one at a time – we’ll paint these topics with a broad brush in order to give you some guidelines.

Wisdom Tooth Extraction

After wisdom tooth extraction, a blood clot normally forms in the hole left in the gum, protecting the exposed nerves during the healing process. If the clot is dislodged, a painful condition known as “dry socket” results. Dentists recommend that patients follow some simple precautions to minimize the symptoms of dry socket. 

Impacted Wisdom Tooth

Teeth consist of two main parts, the crown and the root. The root is formed in a way that it can exist beneath the gum tissue, long term. The crown, however, is covered by enamel and formed in a manner that should protrude through the gum for predictable health in the mouth. Having the enamel crown trapped below the gum can result in problems like infection, cyst formation, and gum disease.

Snake Venom

An adhesive made from an enzyme found in snake venom may be a more effective and beneficial adhesive than traditional sutures when used to close surgical incisions, according to a study published in the October issue of Journal of Periodontology.