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.
Oral Surgery Can Save Smiles With Wisdom Teeth Removal
As we grow, our smiles undergo a number of changes. However, some of these changes could be potentially harmful for your smile’s health, appearance, and stability. As we enter adulthood, up to four new molars could erupt. Known as wisdom teeth, these could pose serious risks for your smile. Fortunately, your Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgeons know to carefully and comfortably remove them prior to eruption!
The Many Ways Dental Implants Can Enhance Your Grin
Having a lost tooth can impact your smile in more ways than one, including threats to its functionality, difficulties with speaking or chewing, and cosmetically having a noticeable gap between teeth. Not only that, but it can have a negative impact on one’s self-confidence as you begin to experience anxiety about your appearance. Fortunately, the restorative procedure of receiving dental implants can assist in completing your grin once more. In fact, your Santa Rosa, California oral surgeon at Santa Rosa Oral Surgery can inform you of the many ways that implants can enhance your grin.
How Replacing Lost Teeth Saves Your Smile
Oftentimes, losing a tooth can be prevented with staying on top of routine dental visits and maintaining excellent oral health habits at home. It is important to know, however, that there are also a variety of factors that contribute to tooth loss, such as decay due to poor hygiene or preventive measures, dislodged or broken teeth due to a physical accident, and pretty much everything in-between. While there are some circumstances that warrant the removal of a tooth, it is necessary to note that there are options for restoring a lost tooth and that the benefits are threefold. At Santa Rosa Oral Surgery in Santa Rosa, California, we recognize the importance of replacing any lost teeth, and want to share with you why it is better to do so.
Ways You May Be Putting Your Smile In Danger
Routine dental care at home is an excellent first step to maintaining a happy smile for life, but understanding what to stay away from is crucial as well. In fact, it is important to learn about the conditions that can increase your chances for tooth loss in order to best serve your grin, and the team at Santa Rosa Oral Surgery in Santa Rosa, CA is here to help! Whether you are conscious of damage being done to your teeth or not, staying on top of your health and understanding the ways you may be putting your smile in danger is something you should know to ensure the health of your grin.
The Complicated Impacts of Losing Natural Teeth
Some of the biggest problems that result from tooth loss aren’t things that you notice right away. For example, depending on how many teeth you’ve lost and how visible they were on your dental ridge, the most obvious problem may be your smile’s appearance. However, over time, the loss of your natural tooth structure, including the crowns and the roots of your teeth, can lead to several more complicated impacts to the rest of your oral health. (more…)
Are Your Wisdom Teeth Impacted?
For many people who develop wisdom teeth, or third molars, their development often comes with problems. Due to a lack of space at the ends of the dental ridges where they try to erupt, wisdom teeth can often become impacted before they have a chance to fully emerge from the gum line. While wisdom tooth impaction can lead to a host of severe problems if left untreated, it may not always be easy to tell if they’ve become impacted at first. (more…)
Should Jawbone Grafting Be Part of Your Treatment?
Most oral surgeries are designed to address a specific type of problem, and jawbone grafting is no exception. However, the specific reasons why you might need jawbone grafting, and whether the treatment might actually benefit your oral health, can depend on several unique factors of your oral health. Today, examine what jawbone grafting is designed to accomplish, and how you might know if it should be a part of your overall smile restoration plan. (more…)
Things that Might Lead to Tooth Extraction
There are several different conditions that can raise your risks of losing one or more teeth. When they get severe enough, it can sometimes be a better idea to extract the tooth than to wait for it to be lost on its own. While tooth extraction isn’t a commonly recommended treatment option, it may be the most appropriate solution if the tooth can’t be restored and saved through other means. Today, we examine a few conditions that might lead to a need for tooth extraction, and why removing the tooth could be the best thing for your oral health. (more…)
What Could Make Tooth Loss More Likely?
Some people believe that tooth loss is an inevitable part of aging, no matter how well they care for their smiles in the meantime. However, the truth is that adult teeth were meant to be permanent, and tooth loss typically occurs as the result of another underlying oral health concern that has grown severe. The good news is that, for most people, tooth loss is largely preventable with the right level of preventive oral health care. However, it also means that you may be more at-risk for tooth loss than you realize if you exhibit one or more existing oral health concerns. (more…)
Dr. Rogers was published in CDA’s November Issue. Click above to see his article (pg.601).