What is the dental procedure for tooth extraction?

Answer 1

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Your dentist should get a complete health history on you, take your blood pressure & plus, and record all medications you are currently on (if any) including any herbs or vitamins (can affect clotting)

An X-ray will be taken of the tooth to be extracted.

Basically a topical anesthetic (gel) is applied to pre-numb the area that will be injected, then the local anesthetic (ususally lidocaine + epinephrine) is injected, and the dentist will test the gum around the tooth to see if everything is numb.

When you are completely numb, the dentist will use a periosteal elevator to loosen the gum and ligament around the tooth. When the tooth appears to be 'wiggling' he will use the appropriate forceps to grab the tooth firmly and rock it back and forth. When the tooth comes out, he will place folded up gauze on top of the socket, and instruct you to bite down firmly and just sit quietly for about fifteen minutes. The assistant will check the clotting and change the gauze before giving you your post op-instructions and pain management medication prescription to go home with. If you are healthy a single extraction should not be bad at all. If you are health and young the extraction & healing post-op will go even easier.

If the tooth has an abcess, the dentist will put you on a series of antibiotics before and/or after the extraction. If there is a big swelling, a little incision & drainage may be done to let the pus drain out.

Hope this helps.

This is going to STINK!!!!!!! For all of you out there you are not alone if you have a Baby Tooth extracted because I am having mine out by tommrrow and BOY AM I SCARED!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

The standard tooth extraction involves making an incision in the gum, and remove any bone that blocks access to the tooth. The dentist then breaks the tooth into pieces and begins removing the tooth.

Answer 3

The dentist or oral surgeon uses an instrument called an elevator to luxate, or loosen, the tooth; widen the space in the underlying bone; and break the tiny elastic fibers that attach the tooth to the bone.

Answer 4

An instrument called an elevator is used to loosen (luxate) the tooth, widen the space in the bone, and break the tiny elastic fibers that attach the tooth to the bone. Once the tooth is dislocated from the bone, it can be lifted and removed with forceps.

Answer 5

dentist will extract tooth only when that tooth grossly decayed, giving lot of pain and not usefull for eating purpose. if that is the case, the dentist first will ask for any medical problems that u r having i.e. Diabetes, cardiac , hypertension, allergic to any drugs..

after all this questions, dentist will give u numb producing injection near that particular tooth area, after 2-5 minutes u feel numb. then dentist will check for numbness in ur tooth, now that tooth can be removed painlessly.

after removing tooth dentist prescribed some tablets to prevent infection..