Oral and Maxillofacial surgery is a surgical procedure which includes rectifying and treating injuries or obstacles in the anatomical areas of mouth, jaw, neck, head and other facial tissues. The surgery should be handled by a specialist who mastered in treating the oral & maxillofacial regions.
Besides these, maxillofacial infections like cyst and tumors formed in the facial areas can be pulled out with the surgical procedures.
People who are suffering from wisdom teeth problem, encountering facial pain and have misaligned jaws by birth can get maxillofacial surgery treatments. Apart from such birth defects, facial injuries and other trauma which affect the functional and aesthetic conditions of maxillofacial regions can also be addressed with the oral surgeries.
Untreated issues inside the mouth that require surgical approaches to treat will deteriorate and affects facial appearance.
If the wisdom teeth are not extracted or removed, it will cause intense pain and they begin to incline towards the neighboring teeth. It ends in push the teeth move out of alignment.
Untreated issues in the jaw will weaken the jaw bone which will end in jaw bone loss and it makes your face looks older than your actual age.
If the missing teeth spaces are left unfilled for a long time, then the bone underneath the gum will deteriorate. This also ends in jaw bone loss in a longer run.
A Dentist can do activities like examining the infected teeth, cleanings, pulling teeth, filling cavities and others. Removing wisdom teeth involves cutting the gum tissue to extract the impacted teeth. A Dentist should have training in handling the dental accessories like periodontal scalars, Retraction, Benex Extraction System and others for the safe wisdom teeth removal.
Visiting an oral surgery specialist or dentist who has trained in surgical procedures will worth your investment in impacted teeth extraction that assures no side effects will happen.
Yes. Problems inside the salivary glands can also be treated with surgical procedures. Besides oral surgeries, you can get advanced treatments like radiotherapy to treated tumorous growth inside the anatomical areas of the mouth.
You will not feel pain during the surgery as the regions around the surgical site are numbed by administering anesthesia before the treatment. Minor discomforts like mild pain and bleeding that exists for a few days after the treatment.
If you have any problems with teeth, jaws, gums or pain around the neck and face, consult your Dentist. The dental examination made by your dentist will help to identify the problem needs surgical treatments. If it is a mild issue, your dentist will fix it. Otherwise, he/she will recommend a dental surgeon.
