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Find A Location Lay the foundation for lasting oral health with gentle tooth extractions. For patients who experience dental anxiety, oral sedation ensures comfort and peace of mind. We also offer personalized restoration solutions, such as bone grafting, dental implants, and bridges.
When a tooth needs to be removed, choosing an experienced dentist is essential for ensuring a smooth, safe, and comfortable procedure.
At The Dental Team, we specialize in both routine and surgical tooth extractions, addressing teeth that are damaged, decayed, or impacted while protecting the health of the nearby teeth and jawbone. We prioritize your care every step of the way, creating an environment where your comfort comes first. For those considering dental implants, we also offer bone grafting to strengthen the jaw and establish a stable base for future restorations.
Tooth extraction is the process of removing a tooth from its socket in the jawbone. While the primary goal is always to preserve natural teeth, there are situations where removal becomes necessary to maintain long-term oral health.
A dentist may recommend extraction due to severe decay, advanced gum disease, dental trauma, infection, or overcrowding. The procedure is performed using local anesthesia, with the option of oral sedation, to ensure your comfort throughout the process.
Step 1: Preparing for the Extraction
Before the procedure, we’ll carefully review your health history, including any medications you’re currently taking. This helps us ensure the process is tailored to your needs and proceeds safely.
Step 2: Ensuring Your Comfort
To keep you comfortable throughout the treatment, we’ll apply a local anesthetic to numb the area. If you experience dental anxiety, we also offer oral sedation to help you stay calm and relaxed.
Step 3: Performing the Extraction
The extraction method used will depend on your individual needs. Common extraction techniques include:
A simple tooth extraction is performed when the tooth is fully erupted and visible above the gumline.
The area is numbed with a local anesthetic to ensure your comfort throughout the process. The dentist uses precise instruments to gently loosen the tooth from its socket. The tooth is then carefully removed with minimal disturbance to the nearby bone and tissue.
Because it’s minimally invasive, this type of extraction is usually quick, involves a short recovery period, and allows most patients to return to normal activities shortly afterward.
Surgical tooth extractions are necessary when a tooth is not easily accessible, such as impacted, broken, or hard-to-reach molars. An incision is made in the gum to access the tooth. If needed, the dentist will carefully remove portions of bone around the tooth or section the tooth into smaller fragments to allow for easier and safer removal. Precautions are taken to protect nearby structures like the cranial nerves, lingual nerve, and inferior alveolar nerve
Surgical extractions are performed using local anesthesia, and sedation options are available for patients with anxiety or complex cases.
Wisdom teeth often need to be removed due to pain, infection risks, or lack of space in the jaw. When these third molars become impacted, they can lead to alignment issues, abscess development, or complications with the maxillary sinuses, especially for upper wisdom teeth.
If you're dealing with impacted wisdom teeth, our team performs wisdom teeth removal to help prevent these issues and protect your long-term oral health.
After a tooth is extracted, the surrounding bone naturally begins to shrink, a process known as bone remodeling.
This gradual loss of bone can weaken support for nearby teeth, cause difficulties placing future dental implants, and change facial contours or structure.
To help prevent these complications, we offer bone grafting at the time of extraction. This involves placing a biocompatible grafting material into the empty socket, which helps preserve bone density and lays the groundwork for future tooth replacement options like implants or bridges.
Caring for the extraction site properly is essential to support healing and minimize discomfort. After your procedure, your dentist will provide personalized instructions to follow at home. These may include:
Most patients feel significantly better within a few days, while full healing of the gum and bone can take several weeks.
If a tooth requires removal, we can explore various tooth replacement solutions to bring back your smile.
Widely regarded as the gold standard for replacing missing teeth, dental implants look, feel, and function like your natural teeth. They are anchored securely into the jawbone, often with the support of a bone graft to ensure long-term stability and strength.
Bridges are a fixed solution for replacing one or more missing teeth. They rely on neighboring healthy teeth for support and help restore both function and appearance.
For patients with multiple missing teeth, we offer custom-designed partial or full dentures. These removable restorations are crafted for comfort, a natural look, and improved daily function.
Most patients don’t feel pain during the procedure thanks to local anesthesia, which numbs the area. You may feel some pressure, but it’s generally well-tolerated.
Initial recovery typically takes a few days. However, full healing of the gum and jawbone may require several weeks, depending on the complexity of the extraction.
Dry socket occurs when the protective blood clot that forms over the extraction site is dislodged, exposing the bone underneath. This can cause severe pain and requires prompt dental attention. Contact our office immediately if you notice intense discomfort after your extraction.
Absolutely. Dental implants are a popular replacement option after extraction. In some cases, bone grafting may be necessary to create a strong foundation for the implant.
Stick to soft, easy-to-chew foods such as yogurt, applesauce, mashed potatoes, and soups. Avoid anything hard, crunchy, or sticky that could irritate the extraction site or disrupt healing.
