So we use oral surgery daily in our practice for people to have non-restorable teeth or terminal dentition like I talked about earlier. They’re broken teeth, there’s nothing there to restore, you know, maybe it’s broken at the gum line and we have to remove the root to get the infection out. Sometimes there’s just no way to restore a tooth to health predictably.
So we opt to use oral surgery like an extraction to get the infection out and to make that patient healthier. And we’ve talked about options for when we do have to remove a root, you know, we’ve got plenty of options to replace it and to make it healthy again. Like I said, we got the implant.
So a lot of times what we’ll do is that same day that the tooth comes out, we’ll do some grafting to rebuild the structure of that area so that patient’s eligible for an implant to restore the whole area at a later time.
