Definition: Tooth Extraction refers to painless removal of tooth or tooth roots with minimum trauma to the surrounding tissues so that the extraction socket wound heals uneventfully without any post-operative complications.
Indications for Tooth Extraction
- Deeply Carious tooth with pulpal pathology
- Teeth with apical pathology
- Severe gum disease
- Broken teeth
- Teeth in the fracture line
- Teeth which cannot be restored endodontically
- Retained deciduous teeth
- Teeth with fractured root
- Prosthetic Reasons
- Prophylactic extraction
Contraindications for Tooth Extraction
- Uncontrolled Diabetes
- Leukemia
- Renal Failure
- Cirrhosis of liver
- Heart Failure
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Heart Disease
- Pregnancy
- Blood dyscrasias
- Patients on steroid therapy
- Patients on anticoaugulant therapy
- Medically compromised patients
- Toxic Goitre
- Jaundice
- Nephritis
- Fever Of unexplained ttorigin
Types of Tooth Extraction
Teeth can be extracted in two ways
- Closed or intra-alveolar: In this method, the tooth is extracted in a simple way using forceps.
- Open or transalveolar: In this method, a mucoperiosteal flap is raised and the tooth is extracted surgically.
- Pain
- Swelling
- Dry socket
- Limited mouth opening/Trismus
- Fracture of teeth
- Damage to adjacent teeth
- Damage to soft tissues
- Oro-antral fistula
- Fracture of alveolar bone
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