Dental clinics in Port Orange can provide a large selection of services. Examples include dental implants, sleep apnea treatments, jaw surgery, and tooth extractions.
What Does Exposing An Impacted Tooth Involve?
An impacted tooth is simply one that has not emerged properly; it has gotten stuck. Wisdom teeth are the most likely to get impacted. As people don’t need their wisdom teeth, the dentist will usually extract them.
Sometimes, some other tooth will get impacted. Since the patient will need it, the dentist will try to save it. They will start by taking a dental X-ray to determine what the problem is. In some cases, they will find that something is preventing the tooth from emerging.
If nothing is blocking the tooth, the dentist will perform a procedure called “exposure” to coax the tooth into emerging. They will administer a local anesthetic and then cut away some of the surrounding gum and bone to expose the tooth.
What Is Twilight Sedation?
Twilight sedation describes intravenous or IV sedation in which the sedative is delivered into the patient’s bloodstream. It is called thus because the patient will often experience “twilight sleep” in which they drift in and out of sleep.
When Might Somebody Need Jaw Surgery?
Patients may need jaw surgery to correct misaligned jaws or a bad bite, particularly if non-surgical treatments like dental appliances haven’t worked. A patient’s jaws can become misaligned if the upper and lower jaws grew at different rates during childhood.
Jaw surgery may also be needed to correct birth defects or repair injuries.
Depending on what needs to be done, the surgery may take one to four hours. It will be an in-patient procedure, and the patient will stay at the hospital for at least a day.
Contact Cardinal Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates or visit cardinaloms.com to find dental clinics in Port Orange.