When you have an issue too complex to be treated with a filling or crown, such a tooth loss, wisdom tooth eruption, or weakened jawbones, then you may need oral surgery. Our team has experience in providing minor and complex oral surgeries in-house. In today’s blog, your North Hollywood, CA, dentist talks about our in-house oral surgery procedures and how we help your smile!

When You Need to See Us

When should you contact our team for treatment? We may recommend oral surgery when you have wisdom teeth soon to erupt, or if you have lost a tooth to poor oral hygiene or injury. If tooth loss has weakened your smile, oral surgery could strengthen it and enable you to support dental implants. If you have a tooth severely damaged or decayed/infected, then we could extract it to protect the rest of your smile. These procedures address the more complex concerns that could have serious repercussions for the health and beauty of your smile if left unaddressed.

Planning Treatment

To begin, we will need to take a close look at your smile. With digital x-rays and intraoral cameras, we can examine your smile in detail to assess the cause and severity of your concerns, all while using a fraction of the radiation and providing images instantly chairside. Every smile is unique, and we want to plan each procedure with detail, providing personalized care for our patients.

Sedation

We know the idea of oral surgery could be anxiety-inducing for some, which is why we also offer anesthesia and sedation. With a local anesthesia, we numb the area being treated to help you stay comfortable. With sedation, we can offer options like nitrous oxide, oral conscious sedation, or IV sedation to help you enter a deep state of calm and relaxation, even if you have special needs, an overactive gag reflex, or anxiety. You will have little to no memory of the procedure afterward.

Treatment

As we touched on above, we can place dental implants, addressing minor or even severe cases of tooth loss. We can conduct laser gum contouring to improve the beauty of your smile and help manage periodontal disease, and our team could offer a full mouth rehabilitation to tackle multiple concerns at once. We can extract wisdom teeth before they become impacted and change your smile’s appearance, and also conduct bone grafting to strengthen the smile before we place one or more dental implants.

If you have any questions about how our team will improve smiles with surgical procedures, then contact our team today.

Schedule a Visit for Improved Oral Health

We can tackle your complex oral health issues with precision and accuracy. To schedule a visit for oral surgery, give us a call at Modern Smiles in North Hollywood, CA at (818)763-9353.