What to Do after a Tooth Extraction?

When you have to extract one tooth or several of your teeth, you should know several options and treatments to replace it. Deciding about your condition’s proper treatment may be somehow complicated and require a dental specialist to visit and give you advice.

Regardless of dental treatments for tooth replacement, we should note that tooth extraction may cause your jaw bone to deteriorate and require a ridge preservation stage. According to Dr. Behnam Bohlouli from Smile Point Dental, whose statement has been published in Faze.ca article, alveolar ridge shrinkage and deterioration may be minimized by ridge preservation methods.

Have you wondered what happens to your jaw bone after tooth extraction? When you have to extract one of your front teeth, you think about providing a replacement method for your missing tooth as soon as possible since it will devastatingly impact your smile and appearance.

However, replacing the missing back teeth is not less crucial than your front teeth. When you extract one of your teeth or get knocked out, there won’t be enough stimulation for your jaw bone due to chewing or speaking. Your back teeth are bigger in size and provide more pressure on your jawbone. When they are extracted, your front teeth will have to work more than their power.

When you lose a tooth, or it gets knocked out, your bone in the area feels that there is no need to support a tooth anymore, and it is an extra and unnecessary part of your body. So it starts to become thinner and shorter. If you replace a tooth on-time, your bone tries to support the new artificial tooth.

You may think if you have lost only one of your back teeth, it won’t cause any trouble for you. However, it is always crucial to replace a missing tooth within at most two years unless your jawbone starts to deteriorate. Bone loss makes it almost impossible to get a dental implant because when you want to replace your missing tooth with dental implants, your jawbone should be dense enough.

When a patient refers to a dental clinic for dental implants and s/he suffers from a lack of dense bones, the dentist suggests bone grafting surgery to restore jaw bone health. Getting bone grafting surgery will also prevent your jaw bone loss from progressing at the site of the extracted tooth. Getting a dental implant with insufficient bone density will lead to the treatment’s failure, and your artificial teeth won’t look as natural and beautiful as they should be.

Generally speaking, you should always try your best to take dental advice into consideration and care about your oral hygiene. If you want to extract one of your teeth, it is better to consult a trusted dentist first and understand what tooth replacement methods are available for you to prevent any possible dental issues. Try to save your natural teeth, as even dental implants are not exactly as same as your natural teeth. Take regular brushing, flossing, and dental check-ups seriously as much as you can.