All minor oral surgery is carried out in the practice. The dentist has over 37 years of oral surgery experience. These operations may be carried out under intravenous sedation, though they don't need to be.
APICECTOMY means removal of the pointy end of the tooth inside the bone, sometimes because a root treatment is impossible or undesirable or in conjunction with removal of a cyst.
CYSTS sometimes occur within bone around the roots of teeth or between them, causing increasing bone loss.
FRAENECTOMY is the removal or reduction of the 'stringy' bit between lip and tooth bone where its presence is affecting tooth position or threatens tooth loss.
WISDOM TEETH (third molars). If a wisdom tooth is a nuisance, such as often becoming infected, or threatening the tooth in front of it, or the patient is moving to a country where surgery is primitive, we remove it. Sometimes this is simple, sometimes very complicated. We do all our own surgery of this type.
APICECTOMY means removal of the pointy end of the tooth inside the bone, sometimes because a root treatment is impossible or undesirable or in conjunction with removal of a cyst.
CYSTS sometimes occur within bone around the roots of teeth or between them, causing increasing bone loss.
FRAENECTOMY is the removal or reduction of the 'stringy' bit between lip and tooth bone where its presence is affecting tooth position or threatens tooth loss.
WISDOM TEETH (third molars). If a wisdom tooth is a nuisance, such as often becoming infected, or threatening the tooth in front of it, or the patient is moving to a country where surgery is primitive, we remove it. Sometimes this is simple, sometimes very complicated. We do all our own surgery of this type.
Minor Oral Surgery
BURIED ROOTS can often be left if they are trouble-free, but have to be removed if infected or if the space above it is to be filled with a denture or bridge, or if an implant is to be placed at the site.
PERIODONTAL GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION (GTR) is a new technique for restoring bone height around teeth which would otherwise have a shortened life - reversing bone loss around teeth.
BONE DEFECT RESTORATION (Also a form of GTR above) Defects can be eradicated using bone substrates. These encourage the formation of new bone where desired prior to implants, improvement of denture retention, closure of oro-antral fistula - between mouth a maxillary sinus, filling the space left after tooth extraction.
PERIODONTAL GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION (GTR) is a new technique for restoring bone height around teeth which would otherwise have a shortened life - reversing bone loss around teeth.
BONE DEFECT RESTORATION (Also a form of GTR above) Defects can be eradicated using bone substrates. These encourage the formation of new bone where desired prior to implants, improvement of denture retention, closure of oro-antral fistula - between mouth a maxillary sinus, filling the space left after tooth extraction.