Dental Treatment with Hygiene Instruments and Surgical Instruments
If you have complained of sore and bleeding gums or if you have felt a nodule in some parts of your mouth, it may be time to consult your dentist. Sometimes, it’s just a simple case of gingivitis or an unattended tooth with abscess, which could easily be treated by simple dental procedures. However, in some cases, you may need to undergo dental surgery to resolve this problem and keep the pain away.
Simple Surgery
Extraction is the simplest form of dental procedure some of us may have undergone. If you’ve had your tooth pulled out, you may have seen some of the equipment laid out on the dental tray before the dentist treats you. The basic instruments you would usually find on the dental tray are the mouth mirror, explorer and cotton pliers. These instruments are used during exploratory procedures to peek and probe structures inside your mouth.
Now, when the dentist is ready to extract your tooth or teeth, you will then find a syringe loaded with anesthesia, needle, elevators, forceps, bone file, and maybe a surgical thread in a curved needle. The elevators and forceps are primarily used to help ease out the problem tooth from your gums. The bone file is used to trim sharp edges of the bone where the tooth was pulled out from. This way, when the gums heal and cover the extraction site, you won’t feel any sharp bone in that area. Now, the needles and surgical thread may be used if the extraction site is too big, and it may need a thread to keep the gum together for optimal healing.
Specialized Forceps
One forceps may look the same as the next forceps to a patient like you and me. But the dentist sure has reason to study the course longer. Did you know that there’s a forceps used to pull out front teeth from upper gums and a different forceps for the front teeth located on the lower gums. Now, when the dentist plans to pull out molars, aside from having a different instrument for the upper and lower back teeth, the left and right location of the teeth also help define further which particular forceps to use, so that you have a forceps for the upper right hand side molars, another one for the lower right hand side molars, upper left hand side molars and lower left hand side molars.
Next time you visit your dentist, it wouldn’t hurt to look around so that you keep you mind off the operation. But if you’re too scared to even do that, just forget it and pray the treatment goes successful.
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