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How Tooth Extractions Affect Your Bite and Jaw Alignment

How Tooth Extractions Affect Your Bite and Jaw Alignment

Although a tooth extraction requires only local anesthesia and typically takes just a few minutes to perform, it can affect your oral health for years to come. This procedure should not be chosen lightly. Sometimes, however, removing a tooth is the only way to resolve a serious oral health problem. What happens if you need...
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How to Prevent Dry Socket After a Tooth Extraction

How to Prevent Dry Socket After a Tooth Extraction

A tooth extraction is sometimes a necessary step to take for your oral health. You may have a severely decayed tooth that cannot be saved via a root canal, or gum disease could have made the tooth loosen enough to require its removal. Perhaps your wisdom teeth must be removed because of overcrowding or impaction....
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When Is a Tooth Extraction Preferable to a Root Canal?

When Is a Tooth Extraction Preferable to a Root Canal?

When you sustain significant and irreversible damage to a tooth, leading to root issues such as infections, there are two main options to choose from: a root canal or a tooth extraction. Having to choose between these two treatment options can be stressful. In most cases, your dentist will try everything possible to keep the...
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The Benefits of Using Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PRF) in Tooth Extractions

Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) therapy is a modern approach to post-extraction healing that offers a variety of benefits. This therapy takes advantage of your body’s natural healing powers to speed recovery, reduce pain, and limit inflammation. In fact, some of the most serious issues associated with extraction can be avoided with PRF therapy. Take a closer...
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