Tooth Extraction

An extraction is the removal of a tooth from its socket, recommended when a tooth is too badly broken down, fractured below the gum, loosened by advanced periodontal disease, or impacted and causing problems — as wisdom teeth often do. At Dental Med routine extractions are carried out under local anaesthetic, while surgical removals — including impacted or partly erupted teeth — are performed by the clinic's oral surgeons, sometimes requiring a small gum…

Before surgical or wisdom-tooth cases the surgeon reviews the position on radiographs or a CBCT scan and explains the plan, aftercare and what to expect during healing. Where it may help recovery, the clinic can prepare platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) from the patient's own blood to place in the socket. The team also manages related procedures such as closing an oro-antral communication or smoothing the bony ridge afterwards in preparation for a denture or…