When you have complex oral health concerns, such as wisdom teeth eruption, tooth loss, facial trauma, or imbalance in your jaw, then we can help with oral surgery. To ensure quality treatment and natural-looking results, our team employs advanced digital imaging. In today’s blog, your Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgeons talk about digital x-rays and CBCT imaging.
When You Should Consider Oral Surgery
As we touched on above, oral surgery is recommended for issues too complex to be addressed by your general dentist or orthodontist. That said, we often work alongside your general dentist and orthodontist so that treatment can continue after the surgical portion is complete. Our team can extract wisdom teeth, bracket impacted teeth, and place dental implants to address tooth loss. We can strengthen the jaw with grafting or sinus lift procedures, and improve your bite and facial structure with jaw surgery. While all of these procedures are different, they all require detailed planning, and to do so we use advanced imaging systems.
Digital X-Rays
Digital x-rays take detailed panoramic images of your smile, allowing us to peer beneath the gum line. You don’t have to wear uncomfortable bitewings anymore, as you simply place your chin on a special rest and a machine will encircle your head to capture the images in seconds. They are then transferred to a chairside monitor, so we walk you through the diagnostic process and you can spend less time waiting in the chair. We can also easily send these images to your general dentist, orthodontist, or specialist as needed. The system also uses 90% less radiation!
CBCT Imaging
Our team can also obtain clear images of your teeth, jaws, and face with cone beam computed tomography, or CBCT imaging. This system takes detailed 3D images of your entire mouth and head, so we can plan treatment in detail. The images use very little radiation, less than a single airplane flight, and this makes planning more accurate. Our team can help plan the placement of dental implants and assess the strength of your jaw prior to placement. We can also identify nerve tissues, blood vessels, and sinus cavities to ensure we avoid them during treatment. If you have any questions about the advanced technology we use to treat your smile, or if you would like to schedule a consultation, then contact our team today to learn more.
Learn More About Our Advanced Digital Technology in Santa Rosa, CA
Our team wants to help you obtain care with precision and accuracy, which is why we use advanced technology as part of the planning process. To learn more about the advanced imaging technology we use, then give us a call at Santa Rosa Oral Surgery at (707)545-4625 today!
