Oral Surgery

A number of conditions may require oral surgery, including:

Tooth Extractions

Teeth are extracted for a variety of reasons:

• Decay has reached deep into the tooth
• Infection has destroyed a large portion of the tooth or surrounding bone
• There is not enough room for all the teeth in your mouth

Impacted Teeth

Wisdom teeth, otherwise known as third molars, are the last set of teeth to develop.  Sometimes these teeth emerge from the gum line and the jaw is large enough to allow room for them, but most of the time this is not the case.  More often, one or more of these third molars fails to emerge in proper alignment or fails to fully emerge through the gum line and becomes entrapped or “impacted” between the jawbone and the gum tissue.  Impacted wisdom teeth can result in swelling, pain, and infection of the gum tissue surrounding the wisdom teeth.