Oral surgery is the orthodontic speciality responsible for the diagnosis, treatment and restoration of certain dental pathologies, such as the extraction teeth with or without the root, frenulum removal, the excision of cysts or small oral or maxillary tumours, and the interventions that must be performed on some occasions as prior conditioning of the tissues for fitting dental implants (pre-prosthetic surgery).
If you want, you can request the application of sedatives during any of these interventions. The clinic has a team of anaesthetists to carry this out. Conscious sedation is a technique where drugs are administered to the patient (intravenously) to achieve a state of relaxation such that it allows them to collaborate with the odontologist but in such a relaxed state that the patient lives the experience in a comfortable manner.
Having an impacted tooth is quite a frequent problem. It occurs when after a time when a tooth should have emerged, it has not acquired a normal position within the maxilla. The teeth that most often present this type of pathology are usually wisdom teeth and canines.
The treatment that is usually followed with wisdom teeth is surgical extraction, while canines can sometimes be moved to their correct position with orthodontics..
On the other hand, when root fragments belonging to already extracted teeth are left in the bone it is convenient to extract them to prevent infections and to correctly rehabilitate the lost tooth.
Its technical name is frenectomy or frenuloplasty and consists of surgically removing the lingual frenulum or the frenulum of the upper or lower lip. The main reason for this surgical operation is usually orthodontic or periodontal problems or speech disorders.
Cysts inside the maxillary bones or the oral soft tissues are relatively common. They are generally benign and are treated with oral surgery. Specifically, the type of tumours that are usually found are lipomas, fibromas or small angiomas
Pre-prosthesis surgery is aimed at preparing the hard (bone) and soft oral tissues (gums) for the subsequent placement of a prosthesis or implant and its respective prosthesis properly and in a way that will last.
When a tooth is lost, over time the height and thickness of the bone decrease. If a long period of time has passed when the patient finally decides to fit the dental implant, the maxillary bone may by then lack sufficient volume to hold the implant.
In these cases, it is best to regenerate the bone before positioning the implant, so at the Anitua Dental Clinic the plasma rich in growth factors is used, which consists of regenerating bone tissue in the areas where it is lacking. For this purpose plasma rich in growth factors from the patient him- or herself is used.
