When you have serious issues that impact the function and health of your smile, we can help take on complex concerns with oral surgery. Not only that, but with our skills and experience we can ensure better smile esthetics too. In today’s blog, your Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgeons talk about boosting smile beauty with oral surgery, so you can enjoy your best smile in 2025 and beyond.
Planning Treatment
We can employ oral surgery to address tooth loss, imbalance jaws, and even trauma. When we correct concerns with your smile, we also take time to ensure the results provide better esthetics too. To get started, we will take a close look at your smile with advanced digital imaging systems such as digital x-rays and CBCT imaging, so we can take a high-definition and panoramic view of your smile. We then use these images to plan treatment in detail. Our team will also offer local anesthesia and even sedation to ensure you are comfortable even if you have dental anxiety or special needs that make undergoing care and oral surgery difficult. We strive to ensure you have a positive experience in our office! You will also receive care from a team experienced in oral surgery, as our doctors also work with the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Trauma Team.
Impacted Teeth
If a tooth only partially erupts, this is known as an impaction. This can happen if primary teeth don’t fall out in time, or due to misalignment or even the arrival of your wisdom teeth. Our team can bracket them into place, attaching brackets to the impacted tooth and a nearby one, and then connecting them with a chain. Our team then adjusts tension in the chain to help shift the teeth into proper position. For wisdom teeth, we will actually extract them comfortably from your smile.
Weakened Jawbone Structure
If you lose teeth and your jawbone has degraded since then, losing mass and density, this can impact your ability to receive dental implants. But we can strengthen the smile. With jawbone grafting, we add new structure to the lower jaw so it can support dental implants. For the upper jaw, we can conduct a sinus lift to raise the sinus floor and uncover new structures that can support one or more dental implants, so you have a fuller and more attractive smile, even if tooth loss has weakened your jaw.
Jawbone Imbalance
What if you have imbalance in your jaw, or issues with the structure or appearance? Our team can conduct orthognathic surgery to correct the jaw, moving it in or out, up or down, to improve balance and the appearance of your facial structure.
Facial Trauma
If you have sustained serious facial trauma, we can help! Our team can plan the process in detail, often starting with dental implant placement and then rebuilding your jaw around your new teeth. We can take on fractured or broken facial and jaw bones, and help you obtain results that improve oral health and bite function, as well as your overall appearance.
Missing Teeth
We have mentioned dental implants a few times in the blog already. These provide replacement teeth that look and function like natural ones. Our team will insert an implant post into the jaw, where it acts like a natural root and prevents further breakdown of jawbone structure. We then complete the individual one with a crown, so you have a durable and lifelike replacement tooth. If you have a more advanced case of tooth loss, we could use several to secure a bridge or even a full set of dentures. In fact, with All-On-Four we only need four posts per arch, and this can be completed in one day, so you leave our office with a full smile. All-On-Four requires less structure to stay in place, so you may need grafting or a sinus lift either.
If you have any questions about oral surgery, or if you have a serious issue you want to see addressed, then let us know. We can start 2205 by helping you smile with confidence and enjoy better oral health.
Talk to Our Team About Smile Improvement in Santa Rosa, CA
We want to help you enjoy a smile that looks and functions as it should, so you can have a better quality of life. To learn more about how we transform your bite, then give us a call at Santa Rosa Oral Surgery at (707)545-4625 today! With oral surgery, we can return your smile to optimal health, function, and beauty, often in as little as one to two visits.
