Tooth Extraction: Procedure, Costs, and What to Expect?

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Description	The oral surgeons and dentists perform tooth extractions to handle several dental conditions. The process is usually more painful when they need to operate on a badly damaged tooth or wisdom tooth. In most cases, dentists also take out a tooth to create space for the braces or dental prosthetics. While extracting a tooth, the dental surgeons may first numb the target area so that person can feel comfortable during a painful procedure. Although the tooth extraction procedure looks unpleasant choice for most patients, it is necessary to avoid future problems and dental pains. If you are interested to know more about tooth extraction procedures, the article below may help you better. What is tooth extraction? As the name indicates, tooth extraction is all about removing a tooth. The dentists may have to do this for so many reasons, such as dental infections, gum disease, dental cavities, wisdom teeth complications, injury to the tooth, insertion of dental braces or prosthesis, and when baby teeth are not falling automatically at the desired age. The selection of tooth extraction procedure usually depends upon tooth size, shape, location, and position. Depending upon the condition of the patients, the procedures can be defined as simple and surgical. Generally, the simple extraction involves an operation on a tooth that is visible and accessible above the gums and can be removed in a single piece. In contrast, the surgical extraction procedures appear more complicated as they require the removal of bone, gum tissue, or both. In this case, surgeons often need to extract the tooth into tiny pieces. Procedure for tooth extraction and what to expect? Before working on the tooth extraction, the surgeons prefer taking an X-ray of the affected tooth. The image helps them to understand the angle and curvature of the root. They will apply local anesthesia in the target area to numb it, and then the extraction process begins. When the tooth is not visible directly or is concealed behind the bone or gum tissue, the doctors may require to cut the gum first. In many cases, the dentists near me may also need to remove the bone that is causing obstruction in the target region. Although the patient does not feel pain during the procedure, they can feel some pressure against the tooth. Also, they can hear the cracking and grinding sound of the teeth or bones. For several patients, the overall experience can be very distressing and unpleasant. In case you feel any pain during the procedure, it is important to notify the oral surgeon or dentists. Accordingly, they will administer the numbing agent. Once the extraction procedure is complete, the doctors may stitch the treated area and may apply some additional methods to control the bleeding as required. The surgeons or dentists may apply a thick layer of gauze at the extraction site. The cost involved in tooth extraction: The overall cost of tooth extraction may depend on several factors such as type of extraction, location, how complicated the procedure is, and who is going to perform the extraction. Generally, the involvement of an oral surgeon requires you to make more payment in comparison to general dentists. The estimated cost of simple dental extraction may be somewhere around $130 to $250; however, in the case of surgical extraction, where doctors may need to work on bone or gum tissue, the cost may increase up to $250 to $370. Note that the above-mentioned extraction fees exclude the cost of initial examinations as well as X-rays that are required before starting the procedure. Usually, the initial examination may cost somewhere around $75, and an X-ray may require you to pay $30.
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