Dental Extraction Guide

Nope, its not your ability to move literally but rather the amount of movement your teeth are undergoing. Certain conditions can lead to your tooth, though alive and kicking, getting loose which without proper attention can result in pain, inflammation, infection or extraction. The amount of movement is categorized into three levels, the first being almost minimal and can be remedied with proper oral hygiene. Second degree, gives your tooth a 50/50 chance of survival meaning any step taken can or cannot improve your chances of keeping your teeth. The last or third degree of mobility when accompanied by pain means absolute extraction or removal of the offending teeth ending your suffering but beginning your humiliation with a gap in your bite.
Proper care and monitoring is the best defense against losing your teeth and any abnormal movement by your teeth should be made known to your dentist as soon as possible to avoid further problems. Caught early, it can be reversed and treated to return that smile back onto your face ready to greet another day.

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Exodontia or dental extraction is the removal or uprooting of a tooth from the mouth. Extractions are done for a lot of reasons – the most common of which is too much damage to the teeth that renders restoration impossible. Another reason it is done is when a patient has impacted wisdom tooth. It is also sometimes carried out to make way for an orthodontic treatment. In the early years, before the discovery of antibiotics, perennial tooth infections were most of the time associated with different kinds of health conditions and extractions were a method used to remove the ailing tooth. However, it was also used to get forced admissions of guilt from society’s law offenders.

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After a tooth has been extracted there will be a resulting hole in our jawbone where the tooth was. Healing process can take many weeks or months. This will smooth and fill in with bone. During the healing time, some bleeding may occur . By placing a piece of moist gauze over the empty tooth socket and biting down firmly for 30 minutes can control this. One of the most important part of the healing is to prevent blood clots that form in the empty socket. Avoid rinsing for 24 hours after the extraction and avoid using straws, smoking or drinking hot beverages. If you experience pain and swelling, try to use non-prescription pain relief medications such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen matched with an ice pack. For most extractions just make sure you do your chewing away from the extraction site. A liquid diet may be recommended for 24 hours.Avoid brushing the teeth near the extraction site for one day. After that you can resume gentle cleaning. Commercial mouth wash tends to irritate the extraction site, use salt water instead, (1/2 teaspoon in a cup of water) after meals and before bed. These post-operative extraction guide will reduce the chances of developing pain. After 1- 2 weeks you should no longer notice any inconvenience.

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After the initial challenge of encouraging children to brush their teeth, another problem rears its cavity-covered face. Certainly, this next trial may not be as obvious as the first, but in some ways it is even more difficult to manage. This next dental dilemma presents its form as making sure children are brushing their teeth properly. After all, it is not enough to make sure kids brush their teeth thrice a day; more importantly, dentists and parents must make sure that children do not brandish their toothbrushes as if they were swords or wands inside their mouths, as bleeding gums are obviously not the point of brushing one’s teeth. Hence, it is only necessary that children are taught the proper motions of brushing their teeth in order to make sure that they don’t miss a spot or brush too harshly. True, this may sound like a futile task after having presented the activity of brushing one’s teeth as an adventure that comes with a Catchy!Tune or a Yummy!Toothpaste, but adults only need to remember—and remind their kids, that the time-old cliché still rings dazzling white and true: imagination is the key. A few reminders here and there that Knights in Shining Armor or Hogwarts Witches must have pearly-white teeth, and it is almost certain that teaching kids how to brush their teeth properly won’t be too much of a monster to conquer after all.

Performing root canal therapy and placing a crown on the tooth can sometimes save one from dental extraction. However, severe cases of tooth damage will require a more drastic treatment such as extraction. That is why another possible alternative is delaying treatment, although, this one is highly not advised since postponing treatment will only cause the problem to worsen.

Your dentist will offer two main reasons for you to have your tooth or teeth pulled: 1) Severely damaged tooth, or; 2) Misaligned or nonfunctional teeth. In both cases, dental extraction is necessary, most especially when such cases are so extreme that regular reconstruction work can no longer restore the damage.

After getting a tooth extraction, one must deal with the side effect of anesthesia: numbness of the mouth. It’s neither uncomfortable or not, it’s just disturbing that there’s a hanging lip that doesn’t feel quite that it belongs to you. However, things are going to change for the better.

Novalar Pharmaceuticals just got a go signal from the Food and Drugs Administration to market OraVerse, a drug meant to undo the effects of anesthesia. According to them they’ll start selling the drug for $12.50 a shot.

The drug is not recommended to children below 6. Their target market most likely will be children (older than 6 of course) because they tend to accidentally bite their tongue when it’s numb. Another market to tap are those who just got some cosmetic dental work done and who would wish to look great when they leave the dentist’s office.

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Smoking and tooth extractions don’t mix; and when they do it’s a painful combination. An alveolar osteitis also known as a dry socket occurs when a bone has been exposed in the place where the tooth was taken out.

Usually, a blood clot appears and healing occurs automatically after the dental procedure. However, if the clot is lost partially or prematurely, the bone underneath causes severe pain and throbs as though the tooth ache is still there. This is accompanied by a foul smell in the mouth.

In order to alleviate pain, the dentist usually advises that there will be no sucking through straws, nor rising or smoking for the next 48 to 72 hours.

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Dead Jaw Syndrome or Osteonecrosis of the Jaw happens when bone tissue in the jaw fails to heal after a minor trauma like getting your tooth extracted. However, there are some instances that particular drugs that increases the risk of this condition.

Researchers form the University of Southern California School of Dentistry are saying that microbial biofilms are the culprit behind this infection. It was also found out that taking bisphosphonate drugs like Fosamax, Boniva and Actonel makes the infection worse. These drugs are prescribed to patients with osteoporosis. According to one of the researchers:

“Now that we’ve know biofilms are behind the infection of the jaw, we are studying ways to effectively treat or prevent the osteonecrosis.”

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by: Christine Zafra

If you love sodas and can’t live without them when eating your favorite steak, you better thank Virginia Tech for clarifying the connection of soft drinks with tooth decay. There is none, said the pioneers of the research.

But before you jump around and buy a crate of soda for you personal consumption (really, where do you put those?), here is the catch: that study is only effective for the children, the teenagers and the adolescents. People 25 and up? You better contain your soda intake. Also, your teeth are much brittle than before, so a little carbonated water can wash up the enamel, slowly but surely.