Your Boonville Dentist Answers Your Tooth Extraction Questions

When a bad weed sprouts in a garden, it’s always better to pull it rather than letting it multiply and suffocate the rest of your beautiful, healthy garden. The same thought process can be applied to your smile. When a tooth’s health begins to decline or suffers severe trauma, sometimes the best move for your whole smile’s health is to pull the individual tooth. Your Boonville only recommends a tooth extraction when absolutely necessary. Even when one is highly recommended from your dental office, we have the resources and expertise you need to even have a positive experience during your tooth extraction.

What You Need to Know Before a Tooth Extraction

When a tooth becomes severely damaged, overcrowded, or infected your dentist will perform a tooth extraction with the rest of your smile’s best interest in mind. It’s best to remove one bad tooth rather than trying to keep it and spread an infection or create other issues from overcrowding. This is the last option to be explored because ultimately, dentists are here to help you keep your natural teeth. Before you move forward with getting a tooth extraction, communicate with your dentist these things:

• Your complete medical history.
• Medications or supplements you’re currently taking.
• History of heart issues or man-made heart valves.
• Impaired immune system.
• Liver disease
• Artificial joint.
• History of bacterial endocarditis.

Why Might My Dentist Recommend a Tooth Extraction?

The tooth is extremely damaged.

Pulling your natural teeth becomes a very real possibility if tooth decay has taken over the tooth. It’s important that the infection and decay doesn’t spread to surrounding teeth. A tooth may be damaged from a chip or crack and leave your surrounded teeth and gums susceptible to infection or even future tooth loss.

Your teeth are overcrowded.

If a tooth develops incorrectly, it could be deemed useless or distracting to the rest of your smile. If teeth are too big to fit within the mouth as they’re supposed to, they may block other teeth from growing into their correct places as well. Extracting that tooth can give your natural teeth more space to grow into the right places.

The tooth is severely infected.

Harmful bacteria can infect a tooth all the way down below the gum line if it is left untreated. If the pulp of your tooth becomes infected, it can easily spread to your other natural teeth. That’s why normally your dentist will recommend root canal therapy. But in some cases, the damage is so far gone that the root canal won’t reverse the damage that’s already taken place.

Meet Dr. Joseph T. Kelly

Are your teeth bothering you or causing you unusual tooth pain? If you need help addressing dental pain, Dr. Kelly has the expertise and resources to make a tooth extraction in Boonville practically painless. Reach out to Great Impression Dental for a positive dental experience—even when it comes to extractions. Contact us here or by calling (660)882-7522.