If you have a smile weakened by tooth loss, or serious recession due to gum disease, we could help with oral surgery. We can even prevent major issues like wisdom tooth impaction! In today’s blog, your team at Cerritos Dental Surgery talks about how we help smiles with oral surgery in Cerritos, CA.
Ensuring Your Comfort
First, we want to assure you that we always take steps to ensure your treatment experience is a comfortable one. Our team will discuss options like local anesthesia to numb areas directly. We can also choose from three different sedation options to help you enter a deep state of calm and relaxation, often with little to no memory of the process at all. We could select a milder option like nitrous oxide, or more substantial calming though oral conscious or IV sedation. We also plan necessary oral surgery in detail with the latest in digital imaging technology!
Bone Grafting
When you lose natural teeth, the jawbone around the missing roots could weaken and erode. This means you risk additional missing teeth and an aged appearance, and your jaw may be unable to support a durable and lifelike tooth replacement option like dental implants. But with bone grafting, also known as a ridge augmentation, we can strengthen the lower jaw so it can support dental implants and keep your youthful factual features intact. The process involves adding new structures to the lower jaw, taken from other parts of your own body, or using donor or syntenic sources. This provides a new base that can support dental implants. Once we insert your new teeth, this helps further protect your smile, keeping remaining natural teeth in place and your facial structure intact.
Gum Grafting
For some, a severe case of periodontal disease could allow the gum tissues to recede, pulling back from the teeth so that they appear longer. This exposes portions of the roots not protected by enamel so the risk of discomfort and cavities increase. You also have a greater risk of periodontitis; the stage of gum disease linked to tooth loss. With gum grafting, we can take tissues from other parts of your mouth’s interior and use them to cover the exposed roots and rebuild your gum line. We do so in a way that ensures proper symmetry too.
Tooth Extraction
If you have wisdom teeth soon to erupt, or if you have teeth too damaged or decayed to be treated with a restoration, we can protect your smile from major complications with a safe and gentle tooth extraction!
TALK TO OUR TEAM ABOUT ORAL SURGERY
To schedule a consultation for oral surgical treatment, then make an appointment with Cerritos Dental Surgery in California call 562-584-4082 today.
