Extractions / Space Maintainers

 

When a tooth is struck by bacteria, it becomes heavily infected that structure is lost. Ideally, a simple tooth decay may be resolved by a dental filling and the tooth is properly restored again. Sometimes the infection spreads greatly that it infects the pulp tissue so that a pulp therapy will be required. Various dental restorative procedures can easily save a tooth but when the condition is no longer salvageable, there is sometimes no choice but to resort to a tooth extraction.

 

Ideally, all the deciduous teeth exfoliate and are replaced by their counterpart permanent teeth. All the baby teeth should shed and they are replaced at a right schedule but some children prematurely lose their teeth. This means that even before they are supposed to shed, they have to be removed and so they are pulled out.

 

A tooth extraction procedure is rather simple but working with a child can be complicated, especially since it requires dealing with the injection. This is the first problem about premature tooth extractions, it is how dental traumas are born. A child is sometimes much too young to understand and handle the pain involved in tooth extractions so they dread the experience. In truth, the pulling of a tooth is fairly simple because the tooth is merely held in the alveolar by fibers and to remove them they just have to be loosened. To make it more positive for the patient, it could be done while he is sedated, so that negative outcomes can be prevented altogether.

 

Space Maintainers After Extractions

 

Another problem with premature tooth extraction is that it can cause alignment and occlusions issues in the future. When a tooth is lost early, the space it creates from it being pulled away may be lost due to the shifting and drifting of the adjacent teeth. This causes problems that definitely indicates the need for orthodontic treatment in the future — and dental braces, however reliable is expensive and lengthy so avoiding it altogether will be quite valuable.

 

A good way to preserve the space would be for the child to wear a space maintainers. This dental appliance may be fixed or removable, and it is constructed specifically so that it could be placed over of the space in the arch, to prevent any shifting and drifting from occurring. The appliance is worn by the child and it is safely maintained in the mouth until the permanent counterparts are ready to emerge into the arch and occupy the space.

 

Another alternative to be worn is a space regainer appliance whose function, as the name suggests, is to recapture space that was previously lost. When the space lost is still salvageable, a space regainer may be fitted into the gap to push the teeth a little. Once it fulfils its job a space maintainer may be fitted into it to keep the space.

 

Extractions / Space Maintainers

 

When a tooth is struck by bacteria, it becomes heavily infected that structure is lost. Ideally, a simple tooth decay may be resolved by a dental filling and the tooth is properly restored again. Sometimes the infection spreads greatly that it infects the pulp tissue so that a pulp therapy will be required. Various dental restorative procedures can easily save a tooth but when the condition is no longer salvageable, there is sometimes no choice but to resort to a tooth extraction.

 

Ideally, all the deciduous teeth exfoliate and are replaced by their counterpart permanent teeth. All the baby teeth should shed and they are replaced at a right schedule but some children prematurely lose their teeth. This means that even before they are supposed to shed, they have to be removed and so they are pulled out.

 

A tooth extraction procedure is rather simple but working with a child can be complicated, especially since it requires dealing with the injection. This is the first problem about premature tooth extractions, it is how dental traumas are born. A child is sometimes much too young to understand and handle the pain involved in tooth extractions so they dread the experience. In truth, the pulling of a tooth is fairly simple because the tooth is merely held in the alveolar by fibers and to remove them they just have to be loosened. To make it more positive for the patient, it could be done while he is sedated, so that negative outcomes can be prevented altogether.

 

Space Maintainers After Extractions

 

Another problem with premature tooth extraction is that it can cause alignment and occlusions issues in the future. When a tooth is lost early, the space it creates from it being pulled away may be lost due to the shifting and drifting of the adjacent teeth. This causes problems that definitely indicates the need for orthodontic treatment in the future — and dental braces, however reliable is expensive and lengthy so avoiding it altogether will be quite valuable.

 

A good way to preserve the space would be for the child to wear a space maintainers. This dental appliance may be fixed or removable, and it is constructed specifically so that it could be placed over of the space in the arch, to prevent any shifting and drifting from occurring. The appliance is worn by the child and it is safely maintained in the mouth until the permanent counterparts are ready to emerge into the arch and occupy the space.

 

Another alternative to be worn is a space regainer appliance whose function, as the name suggests, is to recapture space that was previously lost. When the space lost is still salvageable, a space regainer may be fitted into the gap to push the teeth a little. Once it fulfils its job a space maintainer may be fitted into it to keep the space.