One of the most basic procedures done by the dentist in Queensburgh is a tooth extraction. Tooth extractions will have to be done to make way for permanent teeth or for teeth that have been infected or cracked. It is done in one visit to the dentist in Queensburgh. The dentist will first prepare the patient for the extraction by injecting the area with numbing medicine. After a few minutes the dentist in Queensburgh will loosen the tooth and then gently remove it from the socket. The whole process takes less than 15 minutes but the patient will need to have some downtime to allow for healing.
The Queensburgh dentist can also call in the services of an anaesthetist to perform a conscious sedation to put extremely nervous patients more at ease and in a deeper state of relaxation. This will have to be requested in advance though, and is the option most used on younger kids. Conscious sedation is the method also used when the dentist in Queensburgh will have to remove wisdom teeth. This is a bit trickier and takes much longer to extract than a normal tooth and therefore the patient needs to be very still for a longer period of time. Wisdom teeth grow in a sideways motion because there simply isn’t any room for them at the end of the jaw.
The root is also situated in a difficult position which means that the dentist in Queensburgh cannot do the extraction in an upwards motion and also cannot pull out the tooth in the direction it is growing because it will hit into the adjoining tooth. The only option is to break down the tooth and remove it in pieces. To first access the tooth, the dentist in Queensburgh will have to cut open the gum area surrounding the tooth. The tooth is then drilled into pieces which the dentist can easily pick up and remove. Once all of the wisdom tooth material is out, including the root area, the dentist will close up the area by suturing together the gum that was cut open in the beginning. It is a much tougher extraction than when done on normal teeth and as such it will take a couple of weeks to heal and close up.
Also offered by the dentist in Queensburgh are the newest way of straightening teeth. Plastic retainers which are shaped similarly to sports guards but are much thinner and designed to fit comfortably on the teeth so patients do not even know they are wearing them. Patients on the aesthetic plastic retainer programme receive a new set of retainers every few weeks which are shaped just incrementally differently to encourage a slow and steady movement of teeth into the desired spot. There are priced in a similar nature to that of wire braces but offer a world of advantages. Patients will not have to have a semi-permanent attachment on their teeth. And also have the aesthetic benefit of other people not even knowing they are going through this treatment.