When you have issues with the growth of your smile or sustain a serious injury, this can impact the balance of your bite. Without treatment, this could impact both the health and beauty of your smile. But your Santa Rosa, CA, oral and maxillofacial surgeons can help with jaw surgery!
When Your Jaw Needs Surgery
When one or both of your jaws encounter issues with growth and development, this could lead to issues eating properly or speaking correctly, and could cause abnormal growth that alters the appearance of your smile and leaves you vulnerable to painful complications like TMJ disorder and bruxism (teeth grinding). You could also sustain a serious injury that fractures or breaks the bones in the face and jaw, impacting your daily life and leading to issues with bite function. Our team can conduct corrective jaw surgery to address these concerns and restore proper balance to your smile, while also improving facial esthetics at the same time.
Our Expertise and Experience
Our team has years of experience with addressing minor and complex forms of orthognathic surgery. In fact, our doctors are also part of the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Trauma Team, and have gained expertise in rebuilding damaged smiles to offer better oral health and smile beauty. The process is often collaborative, and could involve working alongside your general dentist or orthodontist. With the surgery, we can move the jaw in or out, up or down, and adjust the balance. We may aid in repositioning the smile by replacing missing teeth with dental implants and rebuilding the smile around them. We also want to ensure positive changes to your smile’s esthetics too. Some may undergo orthodontic treatment afterward to put fine touches on the smile and correctly reposition the teeth.
Ensuring a Comfortable Procedure
We know that oral surgery can sound daunting to some, and we take your concerns seriously. If you have dental anxiety or a fear of the dentist, we can discuss dental sedation to help you enter a deep state of relaxation and calm, with little to no memory of the procedure at all. We can choose from nitrous oxide, oral conscious sedation, and even IV. Our team also administers a local anesthetic to the area being treated to aid in your comfort. We want your experience to be a positive one, so you can heal quicker and enjoy your new results. If you have any questions, contact our team today.
Learn More About Orthognathic Surgery in Santa Rosa, CA
Our team wants to help you smile with confidence and enjoy better bite function and oral health. To learn more about our approach to jaw surgery, then give us a call at Santa Rosa Oral Surgery at (707)545-4625 today!
