Tooth extraction in Pune
When do you need Tooth Extraction?
Tooth Extraction or tooth removal is required in the below-mentioned scenarios –
- A badly decayed tooth that can’t be saved
- Mobile or moving teeth.
- Fractured teeth which can’t be treated
- When space is required for straightening of teeth
- Milk teeth extraction – when it doesn’t fall on time, it’s decayed and can’t be treated.
- Wisdom tooth extraction – when the space for wisdom tooth eruption is less, it is badly decayed, when bone or other teeth interrupts the eruption of wisdom tooth
Wisdom teeth removal is most commonly seen in the age group of 18 to 30 years.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is tooth extraction?
Tooth extraction is performed for the removal of a tooth from the dental socket. The most common reason for this procedure is irreversible tooth decay, dental trauma, gum disease, to give other teeth space to straighten. In the case of wisdom tooth pain when the space for wisdom teeth to erupt is less, or it’s decayed, or the bone or any other tooth interrupts wisdom tooth eruption, wisdom teeth are extracted.
What Are The Benefits Of Tooth Extraction?
Following are the benefits of tooth extraction or tooth removal –
- Relieves pain when treatment is not possible
- Lowers the risk of infection spread
- Relieves the overcrowding of teeth during orthodontic treatment.
- A loosened tooth/mobile tooth creates difficulty in eating and talking, the movement of loose teeth causes pain, which is relieved by the removal of a tooth.
- Removal of over-retained milk teeth gives the space for the eruption of permanent teeth
- Wisdom teeth removal/Wisdom tooth extraction –
- a) Relieves the pain and infection
- b) Prevents food lodgement between the partially impacted wisdom tooth and adjacent tooth.
- c) Prevents formation of caries between the partially impacted wisdom tooth and adjacent tooth.
How Is the Tooth Extraction Procedure Performed?
The tooth extraction or tooth removal procedure is performed in the below steps;
- The first step of the tooth extraction or wisdom tooth extraction procedure involves taking Dental X-Ray.
- Dental X-Ray helps to evaluate the underlying condition of tooth and infection present, the position of the tooth root, presence of extra tooth root or curvature of the root.
- Topical anaesthesia is then applied at the site where local anaesthesia/injection is to be given.
- Local anaesthesia/injection is given.
- After the wait of 5 to 10 minutes, the tooth is elevated and removed.
- During the procedure, patients feel the pressure or pulling sensation, but no pain is experienced. If the patient experience pain, a dentist can give more anaesthesia and wait for few more minutes for the anaesthesia to affect.
- Sutures may or may not be given depending on the tooth involved and the condition of the gums.
How Much Does Tooth Extraction Cost?
The Tooth extraction cost or tooth removal cost in Pune depends upon the following factors –
- Number of teeth to be removed
- Type of extraction- simple or surgical (in case of surgical extraction cost increases)
- The complexity of a case – fractured tooth, a badly decayed tooth, curved root, presence of extra tooth root makes tooth removal time consuming and complex thus increasing the cost.
Similarly, Wisdom Tooth Extraction cost differs from dentist to dentist and clinic to clinic.
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