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Oral Surgery in Encino, CA
Over the years, perhaps you’ve been to a dentist who sent you to an oral surgery specialist for a specific procedure, such as a dental implant or the removal of an impacted wisdom tooth. Your dentist did that because there are highly specialized skills involved in performing those procedures—skills that are very different from the unique skills of a dentist. Where dentists concern themselves mostly with the health and condition of teeth, oral surgeons focus on the ecosystem, so to speak, in which teeth live.
Wisdom Tooth Extraction
A lot of people have their first experience of oral surgery when it comes to having wisdom teeth removed. Wisdom teeth (also called “third molars) are the last adult teeth to break through the gums, usually between the teen years and early twenties. An oral surgeon is brought in to deal with wisdom teeth because their deep-in-the-mouth position makes them harder to access than other teeth. Being uncomfortably close to the sinuses above the upper jaw and to important muscles and nerves around the lower jaw, wisdom teeth require specialized training. Depending on how they grow in, wisdom teeth can contribute to jaw damage, sinus problems (e.g., the deep roots of upper wisdom teeth can sometimes perforate the sinus), gum inflammation due to trapped bacteria and the misalignment of other teeth.
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Dental Implants
A dental implant is not a replacement tooth. It’s the structure upon which a replacement tooth sits, and it requires a highly- trained dental specialist to put that structure in place. An implant is essentially a metal post (most often made from titanium or an alloy containing titanium) that is threaded on one end, like a screw. The specialist opens up the gum to gain access to the underlying bone, inserts the implant and literally screws it into place (that’s an over-simplification of the process, but it covers the basics). By placing an implant, the specialist has essentially provided an artificial root upon which a dentist will later fit a dental crown that has been individually engineered for the space it is intended to fill.