How To Remove Broken Tooth

A surgical extraction is required to remove a tooth/root that may accept broken off at the glue line or is impacted (incomplete eruption). These teeth should be removed to treat or preclude infection.

Teeth with a poor prognosis fifty-fifty if restorative handling is attempted might have the following conditions:

Crack/split up that runs under the gum
Extremely large cavities
Severe mucilage disease with extensive bone loss
Root resorption

These are situations when an extraction may be selected and a tooth replacement planned for, for a more than predictable long term outcome.

If the tooth was broken as a consequence of an blow, the cost of the extraction and its replacement may exist fully or partially paid for with a successful claim confronting personal accident insurance.

Also , if y'all are a Singaporean or Singapore PR, the surgical fees may be fully or partially claimable from Medisave.

Why is a tooth surgically removed?

When a tooth breaks, the shape of the tooth structure that remains may make it impossible to extract information technology intact. Occasionally, a tooth that is fairly intact may need to be sectioned to remove information technology with minimal trauma to the surrounding tissues (bone, nerves etc), especially when an implant is planned to supercede information technology.

How is a surgical extraction dissimilar from a regular extraction?

In a regular extraction, the whole molar including the roots are removed in one piece. Usually no os is removed in the process.

Surgical Removal of Cleaved Teeth at Elite Dental

Step 1: Consultation and examination

The damaged tooth needs to be assessed clinically and with X-rays. Your treatment goals and the overall prognosis for the damaged molar will exist discussed.

Should the tooth crave extraction, y'all volition be advised on the potential risks and whether or not your tooth needs to be removed surgically. Afterward the assessment is done, we will then inform y'all well-nigh the difficulty level of the surgery.

Molar replacement is also discussed. If you are planning to take an implant, bone grafting can be done at the time of extraction to minimize the natural bone resorption that volition occur.

Bone resorption begins soon afterwards the loss of a tooth. Therefore, in guild to minimise bone loss, we may recommend several options such as an immediate dental implant or a molar socket bone graft to replace your extracted broken tooth. Dental implants will also assist to recreate residual in your seize with teeth, as it is a functional replacement for the molar that is lost.

Step 2: Pre-surgical grooming

1-2 days prior to your surgery, a thorough scaling and polishing is done. An oral probiotic is too given to heave the numbers of beneficial bacteria in the saliva so that healing is every bit smooth as possible.

Stride 3: Removing the broken molar

The surgical extraction is e'er done under a local anaesthetic. If you are very nervous or anxious, 4 sedation administered by an anaesthesiologist tin be very helpful to ensure an anxiety free experience, especially if the surgical extraction is predictable to be difficult.

An incision along the gum line will be made to expose the tooth's roots. Some os may be removed to let the tooth to be more easily separated from the bone. If necessary, the broken tooth volition be divided into smaller, more manageable pieces to be removed.

The gum volition then be repositioned with stitches which volition be removed afterward a few days.

Post-op medication and care instructions volition then be given to yous to ensure a speedy recovery.