What is a Dental Extraction?
It is the process of removing a tooth or its fragment from the mouth.
Dental extraction is needed when a tooth is infected, heavily decayed, destroyed or broken from trauma.
Even though dental extraction might be one of the favourable treatment choices for a toothache for many people, dentists at Prahran Family Dental try to avoid extractions unless it is absolutely necessary.
We encourage having regular dental check up to detect dental problems in early stages, so extraction of teeth can be avoided.
Whenever dental extraction is needed, dentists at Prahran Family Dental try to approach in the most smooth and painless way so the experience is more comfortable for you.
When is a Dental Extraction needed?
- Tooth Infection
- Dental Abscess
- Dental Trauma
- Irreversibly inflamed dental nerve (pulp)
- Prior to orthodontic treatment (braces)
- Impacted tooth
Ways to save the teeth?
Once the tooth is removed, it is not going back into the mouth ever again.
Due to the reason, dentists at Prahran Family Dental endeavour to save the teeth whenever possible.
Prevention is always better than cure. We encourage having regular routine dental check up and cleaning done at your dentist so the conditions are well monitored so small decays or problems can be treated at early stage, hence you prevent having to have the tooth removed.
When a tooth is infected with good enough tooth structure, Root Canal Therapy might be a better choice as it will allow you to save the tooth by removing infection.
Tooth replacement options
Once the extracted socket heals, it can then be replaced with few options such as:
