Our team offers a host of treatment options to rebuild smiles in Santa Rosa , CA. We can restore structure in your jaw with ridge augmentation and sinus lifts, remove wisdom teeth, and even replace lost teeth with advanced dental implants. To plan these complex treatment options with accuracy and precision, we may employ cone… Read more »
Category: Oral Surgery
Oral Surgery Spotlight: Bone Grafting
You may be wondering why an oral surgeon would have a need to perform a bone graft. A bone grafts is an oral surgery procedure, used to augment areas of the upper and lower jaw, when needed to give adequate material to anchor one or more dental implants. While many patients retain sufficient jaw mass… Read more »
Sedation Solutions for Oral Surgery
When it comes to surgery of any kind, one of the first things that comes to mind might be “Will it hurt?” We can confidently say that because of of our sedation solutions in Santa Rosa , CA, we can manage any discomfort in our office, from short and relatively simple procedures, to complex reconstructions…. Read more »
Treating Facial Trauma
Facial trauma could include minor and severe issues, from tooth loss to fractures, to facial and intraoral lacerations. Often, these issues could require extensive oral and maxillofacial treatments to address. Fortunately, your Santa Rosa , CA, oral surgeons know how to address these complex cases with oral surgery and implant dentistry.
The Benefits of All-On-Four Dental Implants
Tooth loss can be difficult for many individuals. Not only does it affect your smile’s appearance, but the functionality is compromised as well. When you are missing a tooth or even multiple teeth, the gaps can affect the balance of your bite. Additionally, the lack of a root also prevents your jawbone from its purpose… Read more »
How Dental Implants Can Preserve Your Smile
Tooth loss can negatively impact individuals in more ways than one. For example, having missing oral structures can open the path for harmful bacteria to infect the teeth and gums, it can result in the deterioration or erosion of the jaw structure as the lack of roots from the teeth are no longer present, and… Read more »
Common Dental Conditions that Can Lead to Oral Surgery
When patients require oral surgery to address a specific oral health concern, it’s often for a serious condition that their general dentists can’t successfully address in their offices. However, for many patients, their condition wasn’t always that serious, and oral surgery wasn’t always the necessary course of action. Today, we examine how a few common… Read more »
What Does It Mean When Your Bite Is Imbalanced?
Balance and symmetry are extremely importance concepts when it comes to your oral health and bite function. They’re also complicated concepts that can be impacted by a variety of different issues with your oral health and structures, some of which may be serious enough to require oral surgery to correct. Today, we take a look… Read more »
Surgically Extracting Teeth Besides Impacted Molars
When a wisdom tooth, or third molar, becomes impacted behind another molar or within your jawbone structure, extracting it requires performing minor oral surgery to expose and remove the tooth’s structure. When surgical tooth extraction is required, this is one of the most frequent reasons why. However, it isn’t the only reason, and for some… Read more »
Serious Concerns that Could Require Oral Surgery
When oral surgery is recommended, it’s typically because the problem that the patient exhibits is too severe or complex to address with more general dental treatments. Given the specific nature and severity of the condition itself, oral surgery could help stop it from having increasingly more complicated effects on your oral health. Today, we examine… Read more »
Dr. Rogers was published in CDA’s November Issue. Click above to see his article (pg.601).