Dental surgery includes any surgery performed in or immediately around the mouth. This includes all types of dental extraction, including molar extraction, wisdom tooth extraction and all other types of tooth extraction to remove a bad tooth including implacted tooth surgery. Occasionally, a soft or hard tissue biopsy is indicated when oral cancer is suspected.

          The tooth extraction cost varies with the difficulty of the procedure and fortunately, there are usually very few tooth extraction complications. A tooth extraction complication is rare but when it does occur it includes tooth extraction dry socket, tooth extraction pain, tooth extraction infection and tooth extraction bleeding. Many problems can be avoided with good tooth extraction care so it is very important to know what to do after a tooth extraction. Pain after tooth extraction is the most common tooth extraction problem and is most common after a surgical tooth extraction. Good care after tooth extraction greatly assists tooth extraction healing and often helps avoid an infected tooth extraction socket.

          A baby tooth extraction can cause shifting of teeth and badly aligned adult teeth. A carefully done tooth extraction during pregnancy may help avoid problems for the baby. However, the tooth extraction procedure must be done gently and multiple tooth extractions should be avoided. A tooth extraction picture can help patients better understand that this procedure does not always have to be scary. Tooth extraction aftercare must be excellent in pregnant females and antibiotics are absolutely necessary to avoid an infection after tooth extraction. Tooth extraction following oral cancer must be carefully done and is not recommended when the jaw bone has been radiated. In contrast, a child tooth extraction is often much easier than adult tooth.

          Tooth extraction and pregnancy are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Immediate tooth extraction dentures are very tricky to do and often require an additional amount of experience. Tooth extraction prices vary depending on the tooth being removed, the difficulty of the procedure and with the area of the country the patient lives. In addition to removing teeth, our Atlanta dental implant dentist is also able to replace them with dental implants.

         Dental surgery services related to root canal failure are apicoectomy, hemisection and root amputation. Periodontal plastic procedures such as gingival grafting, cosmetic gum contouring, cosmetic gum surgery, cosmetic dental surgery, root coverage, gingivectomy, gingivoplasty, osseous surgery, and the distal wedge procedure. The popularity and patient desire for dental implants has created interest in bone grafting, ridge expansion and sinus lift procedures. Emergency oral surgery procedures include tooth reimplantation, stabilization of traumatized teeth, abscess incision and drainage for a swollen jaw, mucocele excision, ranula excision and the removal of a supernumerary tooth.

          Some dental surgery procedures are not specifically a tooth surgery but instead are designed to prepare the mouth for other dental procedures. These include all pre-prosthetic surgery procedures such as a torus mandibularis or torus palatinus removal, tissue conditioning, exostosis removal, labial frenectomy, lingual frenectomy, excision of hyperplastic tissue, dental bone graft procedures and alveoloplasty.

        The dentists at the Atlanta Dental Group PC are dedicated to their patients' good health and well being. You are welcome to join our family of patients. Most dental oral surgery procedures are offered and because we know that the cost of tooth extraction may not be able to be paid all at once, our Financial Manager will do everything she can to assist you in making financial arrangements to help you obtain your needed dental care. We can also help you study the pros and cons of extraction vs root canal therapy. If you need dental surgery and would like to make an appointment our Doctor of Dental Surgery, Dr. Padolsky, call 404-874-7428.