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 a few concerns that may be serious enough to warrant oral surgery, and the complications that might arise if they’re not addressed promptly. (more…)
How Tooth Loss Changes Your Smile Forever
There are several reasons why it’s important to prevent the loss of your natural teeth, or to address tooth loss as soon as possible if it occurs. Most important, however, is the fact that losing an adult tooth is permanent, and the consequences of it will continue to affect your smile until you actively take steps to address them (namely, by replacing the lost tooth). Today, we take a look at a few ways in which tooth loss changes your smile forever, and how the right lifelike dental restoration can help you regain its good health and confidence. (more…)
Is It Worth Extracting Wisdom Teeth if They Don’t Hurt?
When your third molars, or wisdom teeth, become impacted before they can erupt, the impaction can cause a wide range of serious concerns with your oral health. Increasingly more intense levels of discomfort are among them, and when wisdom teeth start to hurt, it’s often the reason why people seek treatment and learn of the problem. However, for some people, extracting wisdom teeth before they become problematic can be a more proactive way of preserving their oral health and avoiding potentially serious complications later. (more…)
3 Signs of Oral Health Trouble You Should Take Seriously
One of the biggest factors why oral health concerns are allowed to progress severely before patients address them is because they’re unaware that there is a problem, or they underestimate the significance of certain symptoms. Fortunately, there’s opportunity in this fact; though the symptoms may seem minor and insignificant at first, they are present, and if you’re diligent, you can notice them early and take steps to address your oral health concern before it gets any worse. (more…)
When to Seriously Consider Jawbone Grafting
Most oral health concerns can have several different extenuating consequences on your oral tissues and structures the more they’re allowed to progress. For certain issues, such as periodontal disease, this progression can and the severity of its consequences lead to more complicated problems, like the loss of one or more teeth. In the process of becoming more severe, such conditions can cause serious harm to the tissues and structures that make up the foundation of your smile. This includes your jawbone structure, and when the consequences are severe enough, rebuilding your smile could require fortifying this structure through jawbone grafting. (more…)
When Your Third Molars Start to Hurt
Third molars, often referred to as your wisdom teeth, are well-known for the troubles that they often cause. For many different reasons, third molars can become impacted before they have a chance to fully erupt at the ends of your dental ridges. When this occurs, the pain that the impacted molars can cause can become increasingly more intense, and so can the overall threat to your long-term oral health. Today, we examine what it means when your third molars start to hurt, and why extracting them may be the only way to address the problem. (more…)
How Many Dental Implants Does Your Denture Need?
Replacing one or multiple lost teeth with a dental implant-supported restoration is often a simpler procedure than patients expect. With the help of advanced oral health technology, the treatment process is more streamlined and comfortable. Also, with more advanced dental implant planning and treatment processes, we can often create optimal support for dental restorations of all sizes to minimize the extent of treatment required to receive your dental implants. For patients who require complete dentures to rebuild an entire dental ridge of teeth, we can often design All-on-4 dentures that can be successfully supported on just four strategically placed dental implant posts. (more…)
3 Reasons the Health and Integrity of Your Jaw Matter
Your jawbone may not always be something you think of when you consider the state of your oral health. More noticeable things, like your teeth and gums, can often take center stage, especially when it comes to routine things like daily dental hygiene practices. However, the health and integrity of your jawbone structure play several important roles in your oral health, and much more. Today, we examine a few important reasons why your jawbone’s integrity matters, and why jawbone surgery may be required to improve it. (more…)
Optimizing Your Bite’s Function with Oral Surgery
Oral surgery encompasses a number of different procedures designed to address severe oral health complications of nearly all types. For example, when wisdom teeth (third molars) become impacted, they can require oral surgery to remove the impacted tooth structure. If a tooth is lost, then surgically implanting a lifelike replacement could be the best way to preserve your smile. In some instances, oral surgery can also provide a solution to complex problems that impact your bite’s ability to function properly. From addressing tooth loss to repairing damage and other concerns with your oral structures, the right personalized oral surgery treatment could be essential to restoring this function. (more…)
Scheduling Bone Grafting Before Dental Implant Placement
Before a patient has their dental implant placed, they will undergo an evaluation. This review is partly intended to find the ideal placement for an implant (or multiple implants). With that said, you are also being evaluated to make sure your placement will be successful. At our Santa Rosa/Rohnert Park, CA oral surgery clinic, we can determine if there are any issues that might impact your treatment and recovery. If you have left tooth loss unresolved for an extended period of time, or if you have relied on a prosthetic that lacked implant support, you may need help dealing with the problem of bone deterioration. To address this, we can recommend a jawbone grafting procedure or sinus lift to ensure that your smile restoration is successful! (more…)
Dr. Rogers was published in CDA’s November Issue. Click above to see his article (pg.601).