Protect Your Oral Health: The Importance of Dental Extractions for Overall Wellness
Dental extractions—no one likes them, but they are essential for maintaining oral health. While we try everything possible to preserve your natural teeth, dental extractions are sometimes unavoidable. For example, if you have extra, impacted, or severely damaged teeth, Brentwood Dental Care may recommend dental extraction to relieve pain and prevent further health complications.
If you need dental extraction services in Los Angeles, California, you can trust Drs. Don Mungcal and Alyssa Hanel for gentle yet effective dental extractions. Whether you need to extract an ordinary or impacted wisdom tooth, you are in capable hands.
Why do I need dental extraction?
Our office offers fillings, root canals, and dental crowns to rebuild and save damaged or decayed teeth. However, tooth removal becomes inevitable when we have exhausted our tooth-saving methods. The affected tooth may cause unnecessary discomfort, widespread infections, and other health complications without extraction.
Our dental team will recommend dental extraction for situations such as:
- Severely decayed or damaged teeth
- Impacted or troublesome wisdom teeth
- An “over-retained” baby tooth, preventing healthy eruption of permanent teeth
- Overcrowding
- To create space for orthodontic treatment
- Advanced gum disease
After dental extraction, your treatment plan will include a clear strategy for replacing the extracted tooth. Otherwise, without treating your mouth gap, this affects several spheres of your life, including speech, diet, confidence, and oral health. Our dental team will offer dental implants or bridges to prevent the negative effects of tooth loss.
What should I expect from dental extraction?
Your treatment starts with a consultation to examine your tooth’s damage and location to determine the best approach for extraction. Whether your dental extraction is simple or surgical depends on your dental exam.
- Simple extraction: Your dentist will recommend a simple extraction if your tooth is visible and accessible in the mouth. The dentist uses an elevator for this procedure to loosen your tooth from its socket. Then, we use forceps to pull out your tooth in one piece.
- Surgical extraction: Surgical extraction will be the best option if your X-rays show a complicated root system, such as an impacted wisdom tooth. In this case, your dentist will make a small incision on the gums and remove the underlying bone to access the trapped tooth. Typically, the dentist breaks the tooth into several pieces and removes each fragment individually. The final step is to clean and stitch your wound to begin healing.
After extraction, we’ll give you post-op instructions for an event-free recovery. Your aftercare includes medications, home remedies, and follow-up appointments to maximize your healing.
Is tooth removal painful?
Our dental team offers quick and painless dental extractions. Before your treatment, we’ll numb your tooth with powerful anesthetics to ensure a painless experience. While local anesthesia is sufficient for many patients, you can talk to our team about sedation dentistry if you are anxious about the procedure. We offer a range of sedation options that can be adjusted based on your anxiety level.
If you previously thought you couldn’t sit in a dental chair to have your tooth removed, you can now enjoy dentistry again. We combine the latest dental techniques with potent anesthesia and sedation dentistry to deliver stress-free extractions.
Do you need dental extraction in Los Angeles?
While no one enjoys dental extractions, they are vital in maintaining optimal oral health. If you are experiencing dental pain or have concerns about a tooth, dial (310) 444-9900 to schedule a consultation with Brentwood Dental Care to determine if an extraction is the best course of action.
