Oral, Dental, and Maxillofacial Surgery

Oral, dental, and maxillofacial surgery is a field of medicine that treats all diseases by including all soft tissues such as the tongue, lips, cheeks, salivary glands, teeth, jaw, and jaw joints. The surgical treatments we routinely do in our clinic are implants, extraction of erupted and impacted teeth, apical resection, root resection, cyst operations, sinus floor elevation, fracture treatment, bone augmentations and graft, vestibule deepening, gingival smile line regulation.

These treatments are performed under local or general anesthesia after the clinical and radiographic examination of the relevant region and, if necessary, after a biopsy is taken from the relevant region. After about 7-10 days, the stitches in the relevant area are removed in a short time and the patients are called for control at regular intervals.

Which Diseases Does an Oral, Dental, and Maxillofacial Surgeon Treat?

• Diseases related to wisdom tooth problems,
• Extraction of impacted teeth,
• Normal tooth extraction treatment,
• Dental implant applications,
• Infection treatments in the jaw, tooth, and face area,
• Fracture treatments in the teeth and jaw,
• Treatment of diseases that occur in the jaw joint.

You can make an appointment with oral, dental, and maxillofacial surgery for this and many other procedures.

What Happens After Oral, Dental, and Maxillofacial Surgery?

• Protect the treated place, chew on the untreated side for a while. First, you should stay away from hot and cold drinks and foods.
• If the surgeon has inserted a tampon into your mouth, do not remove it for the first half hour.
• The doctor will tell you when you can eat something. Until then, do not eat anything. Afterwards, you can eat soft and warm things.
• Do not smoke for a day or two. You should avoid movements that will create pressure in the mouth.
• It is quite normal to have side effects such as swelling, bruising, and redness after the procedure.
• Be sure to use the medicines prescribed to you by the surgeon regularly.
• If there is unexpected pain, bleeding, or a risky side effect after the operation, you should consult a surgeon immediately.

What is Tooth Extraction?

It is called the process of removing the tooth from the socket in the bone by applying anesthesia by a dentist or oral surgeon.

What is Impacted Tooth Extraction?

It is usually called the process of subcutaneous removal of wisdom teeth. Our jaws are getting smaller and smaller, and wisdom teeth may not be able to come out from under the skin. Therefore, it can press by pushing other teeth and cannot come out from under the skin. This causes serious pain to the patient.