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What is a simple extraction? - Answer-The removal of visible teeth, these are usually performed by a patient's GDC. What is a surgical extraction? - Answer-A more complicated extraction involving a tooth that is impacted inside the jaw and cannot be removed without making an incision. Surgical extractions are usually performed by oral surgeons. What is an operculectomy? - Answer-The removal of the flap of gum overlying the tooth. What is alveolectomy? - Answer-Surgical procedure that aims to remove some or all of the alveolar bones that surrounds a tooth and change the shape and surface of the jaw bone to prepare it for a subsequent procedure. What is gingivectomy? - Answer-Cutting away the gums in the mouth when the patient has periodontal disease, usually to improve aesthetics or to improve the prognosis of teeth. What is gingival flap surgery? - Answer-gums are seperated from the teeth and folded back temporarily to allow the dentist to reach the root/bone. What is a soft tissue biopsy? - Answer-removal and microscopic examination of a small sample of soft tissues for diagnostic purposes. What is a frenectomy? - Answer-removal of the frenelum, a small of tissue in the mouth. Reasons that we extract teeth? - Answer-- orthodontics - beyond restorations - pain - caries - retained roots- impactions - failed restoratives (e.g. RCT) What is a luxator used for? - Answer-designed to be used in a circular cutting motion while applying apical pressure to separate the tooth from the surrounding bone and periodontal ligament. What are elevators? - Answer-used to loosen teeth prior to forcep extraction. What are complications that can occur during a tooth extraction? - Answer-- dry sockets - infection - swallowing the tooth - increased bleeding what is localised osteitis (or a dry socket) ? - Answer-failure to develop a blood clot at the site of extraction, or it dislodges or dissolves before the wound has healed. very painful. can be treated by flushing out the socket, which can removed food and debris. medicated dressings. Bisphosphonates - Answer-medication used to increase bone density by altering how your bone cells (osteoclasts) work. oro-antral fistula - Answer-an opening between the oral cavity and maxillary sinus caused by a perfurated sinus. The different types of bleeding... - Answer-primary bleeding- initial reactionary bleeding- hours latersecondary bleeding- 24hrs later, causes infection. An electronic pulp tester - Answer-electric currents are used to stimulate nerve fibres in the pulp through the dentin layer. you then compare the response of a suspected tooth with that of a normal tooth (the control.) a tooth with a necrotic pulp will not respond to even the most intense electronic stimulation. electronic pulp tester - Answer-normal response = healthy pulp increased response = early pulpitis present reduced response = pulp is dying no response = pulp tissue is dead