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Today we're going to talk about oral surgery for tooth extraction. Hi, I'm Dr. David Wagner,
Northwood Dental, Clearwater, Florida. Tooth extraction can be simple or it can lead into
oral surgery or surgical removal of the tooth. A tooth can be single rooted, which makes
it a little easier to get out, or sometimes it's got double roots which then is harder
to pull out because it has to come out in two different angles. So what we do if we're
doing a single rooted tooth, all we do is get the tooth and work it back and forth,
back and forth so that the tooth actually expands the bone is actually able to be removed
with one of our dental forceps. A forceps like this actually gets a hold of the tooth
and can in a very controlled manner, mobilize the tooth and get it out. Sometimes though
we have to do what's called a surgical removal. And here we actually put a split down through
the tooth and then we can take the tooth out half at a time. So in this case, if there's
two roots, you would split the tooth in the center and you would take out one half in
one direction and the other half in the other direction and that's what's being shown here.
So that's oral surgery for a tooth extraction. I'm Dr. David Wagner, Northwood Dental, Clearwater,
Florida.