You know that quickly addressing concerns with your smile is the best way to restore its health, while promoting long-term wellbeing and beauty. From fillings to dental crowns, restorations ensure your teeth remain in excellent structural shape, so you can continue to enjoy optimal function. However, sometimes problems occur that require the complex attention of… Read more »
Category: Oral Surgery
Reasons for Tooth Extractions: True or False Quiz
Finding out that you need a tooth extraction often causes you to feel much more surprised and concerned than when you find out you require a filling or some other restorative treatment. We understand your shock and the fact that you may initially feel strongly about trying to save your tooth. However, we would like… Read more »
When Oral Surgery is the Best Option
Oral surgery is a specialized field of dentistry that focuses on diagnosing and treating deformities, injuries, and invasive diseases in or near the mouth. More involved than general dental care, oral surgery is often required to correct deep-seated foundational problems that can affect your mouth’s proper function, or when dental disease penetrates deeply enough to… Read more »
Reasons to Feel Confident About Oral Surgery
You may feel a bit concerned when we suggest oral surgery to protect your oral health. After all, this is certainly a bit more complicated than a simple dental filling. However, we would like to reassure you that we only recommend surgery when it becomes essential to protecting the short- and long-term health of your… Read more »
Quiz: Do I Really Need Oral Surgery?
Feeling nervous about undergoing surgery of any kind is natural. You may even try to avoid the issue or delay treatment, asking yourself: “Do I really need oral surgery?” However, oral surgery is not only comfortable, but often necessary to help you maintain a healthy and whole smile.
Oral Surgery FAQ
While you may feel a bit unnerved to find that you need care more complex than a dental filling to address your oral health concern, we hope to reassure you that the benefits of oral surgery can greatly improve your daily quality of life. We find that even mentioning surgery to patients can leave them feeling… Read more »
Why a Tooth Abscess Means Serious Trouble
A tooth abscess, or small pocket of infection, results when a tooth or other dental infection is allowed to become serious. It is also a common cause for some of the more severe forms of discomfort. Unlike many other causes of toothaches, however, dental pain is not the only problem that an abscess can generate…. Read more »
Understanding the Need for Jawbone Grafting
Your general dentist may be able to detect when something is off with your jawbone. For instance, if it’s crooked or malformed, it can affect your bite, which will also affect the health of your teeth. However, when your jawbone requires correction, surgery is typically needed, which requires the expertise of a skilled oral surgeon…. Read more »
How Dental Surgery Can Help You
Unlike dental checkups and cleanings, which you should attend consistently, you might never have a need for dental surgery. When it comes to your dental health (like with your general health), dental surgery is only called for when a routine dental treatment will not suffice. Depending on your exact needs, such circumstances may include removing… Read more »
Roots Canals, Implants, Crowns, Oh My…
There are so many types of dentistry and dental procedures today–cosmetic dentistry, preventative dentistry, general dentistry, restorative dentistry–all offering a myriad of different treatments. Then there is oral pathology and oral surgery. Have you ever wondered what it all means? What is oral surgery? What is oral pathology? Your Cerritos, CA oral surgeon, Dr. Shawn… Read more »
