Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Cavities containing liquid or semi-fluid and covered with soft tissue are called cysts. Small enough to be seen only with a microscope, these bacteria are found in the mouth around the clock.

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If the number of bacteria in the mouth exceeds a certain rate, this situation begins to deteriorate the structure of the mouth, creating various wounds and swellings in the mouth. As a result of these symptoms, the patient is diagnosed with a jawbone cyst by specialist physicians who have developed themselves in the field of oral, dental and maxillofacial surgery.

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Jaw cysts, which can be treated with surgery, grow slowly and unnoticed. As long as the patient delays the treatment, pain and swelling may occur, as well as numbness and burning due to nerve compression.

Since this situation will affect the daily life of the patient, treatment should be started as soon as possible. Even if the cysts do not cause any discomfort to the patient, they must be treated.

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Jaw cysts can be benign or malignant, as with any cyst. Cysts that appear benign at first carry the risk of developing into malignant cysts later on. This causes severe weakening of the jaw muscles. Oral care should be done without interruption to prevent cyst formation.

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Some of the main problems that may arise in cases where the jaw cyst is not treated are:

The cyst grows insidiously over time without the patient noticing and weakens the jawbone.
With the slightest impact, the jawbone becomes breakable.
Jaw cysts, which also occur due to impacted teeth, can also affect healthy neighboring teeth and cause tooth loss.
Health cannot be neglected and as with any disease, early diagnosis saves lives.

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What Complications Can Cause Impacted Teeth?

Impacted teeth are teeth that have not erupted or have not erupted in the mouth where they should have erupted. Teeth may remain buried under the skin due to factors such as the thickness of the gingiva, lack of tooth eruption, and genetic factors.

As long as the impacted teeth are not extracted, the pressure applied to the adjacent teeth can cause infection and tooth decay. These teeth may also need to be extracted for orthodontic reasons. Slipping and deformity of the teeth may occur due to the application of pushing on the front teeth while trying to erupt.

Extraction of impacted teeth is performed by advanced oral, dental and maxillofacial surgeons. The patient can return to his daily life immediately after the procedure.

Various complications may occur if the prescription drugs given by the physician are not used or neglected. In some patients, the tooth may remain embedded in sufficient spaces in the jawbone. In this case, if the impacted tooth does not harm the patient and the adjacent teeth, there is no need for surgical intervention.

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What are Implant Applications? What are the benefits?

An implant is an artificially produced tooth root. Implant made of titanium and its alloys; As a treatment method, it is generally used to fill the cavities of decayed and extracted teeth. Since the jawbone will accept the titanium as a part of the body, the recovery period is short and the permanence period is long.

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Implant application, which is preferred by many patients, is performed by oral, dental and maxillofacial surgeons. The reason why this treatment method is used so often is that it offers a wide variety of treatment methods to patients with missing or no teeth.

Implant treatment method has many advantages over traditional treatment methods. One of the biggest advantages of this method is that it never damages the surrounding teeth during and after the application. Implant teeth, which are close to the natural tooth appearance, give the person an aesthetic and healthy appearance.

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If oral care is done regularly, implant teeth provide a lifetime of use. This care is quite simple and should be added to the patient's daily oral care routine after treatment. Teeth should be brushed regularly and correctly twice a day, then the gap between the teeth should be cleaned with dental floss to remove food residues.

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The main advantages of implant therapy are:

fluent speech,
Perfect tooth root
Self-confident,
oral health,
Durability,
It provides ease of eating.

How is Implant Treatment Applied?

Implant treatment is a very simple and painless procedure in today's technology. Since anesthesia will be applied during the treatment, the patient will not feel any pain.

After the patient is examined, the type of anesthesia is decided by specialists in the field of oral, dental and maxillofacial surgery. As a result of the joint decision of the patient and the physician, anesthesia is applied generally or locally.

Titanium screws, that is, artificial tooth rooted implants that can be used for a long time, are placed in the jawbone of the patient who is prepared for surgery. It takes about 10-15 minutes for each implant to be made.

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Fusion to the jawbone can thus replace the actual tooth root needed by placed implants. This period takes between 3 and 6 months depending on the bone structure. In this process, the implants fuse with the jawbone and become ready for the next procedure.

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In the process of boiling, the patient; He should pay attention to his diet and reduce the use of alcohol and cigarettes. Because the use of these substances prevents the implant from fusing with the jawbone and accordingly the implant may be lost.

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After the patient recovers, the implants become able to lift the prosthetic tooth and a permanent prosthesis is applied. Implant treatment can be applied to any patient with a suitable gap in the mouth and jawbone. However, some patients may not have enough free space for implantation. In such cases, a suitable area for implant placement is created in the patient with advanced surgical methods.

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People with diseases such as high blood pressure and hemophilia should be treated with implant application together with their doctors. In the same way, if a disease that will prevent healing, such as diabetes, is controlled with drugs, there will be no harm in the application of implant treatment.

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What is Tooth Extraction?

Tooth extraction is the extraction of unhealthy teeth that cannot be treated as a result of damage to one or more teeth. This procedure is performed by specialist dentists or oral, dental and maxillofacial surgeons under local anesthesia or various sedation applications.

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Milk teeth fall out over time, leaving their place to permanent teeth, and these permanent teeth can remain in the jawbone for life. People apply to specialist physicians to have their sequential teeth extracted due to various ailments. For orthodontic treatments, the teeth that disrupt the oral structure and impair the tooth structure by applying pressure to the neighboring teeth should be extracted.

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After tooth extraction, the patient can continue his daily life from where he left off.

However, they should not consume hot food and drink for 24 hours, and should not use alcohol or cigarettes.

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What is Impacted Tooth Extraction?

Teeth that cannot come out or come into the correct position because there is not enough space are called impacted teeth. Mostly wisdom teeth have impacted teeth problems. However, in some cases, there is a possibility of impacted teeth that are not wisdom teeth.

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Teeth that stop coming out of the gums may come out halfway in some cases and may not come out later. Since the structure of each impacted tooth is different, different treatment methods should be applied to the individual. Surgical intervention is the most effective treatment method for teeth that press on other teeth, move in the jawbone and do not come out spontaneously.

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Extractions of impacted teeth, which cause pain to the patient over time, are performed by oral, dental and maxillofacial surgeons. One of the main reasons why impacted teeth cause pain is the general pressure applied in the mouth and the compression of healthy teeth because there is no place to come out.

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The treatment is given to the patient after local anesthesia and takes approximately 45 minutes – 1 hour. If the patient uses painkillers given by the doctor after tooth extraction, he will begin to heal painlessly. Recovery time averages 7 days.

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Impacted tooth symptoms are as follows:

Bleeding in the mouth, teeth or gums
gum sensitivity,
Pain in the jaw and ear
Swelling that may occur in the lymph nodes,
Headache,
bad breath,
difficulty opening the mouth
It can be seen in the form of pain when chewing or biting food.
What are the Advantages of Quadruple Implant Treatment?
Implant treatment is applied to the patient for tooth loss and filling the gaps caused by various reasons. However, the treatment of people who have lost many teeth or become edentulous can be very long and costly. With this method, instead of using a single implant for each missing tooth, four implants are used at the top and four at the bottom.

Quadruple implant application technique is applied to patients who have no teeth. This treatment is used to fix the prosthesis with 4-6 implants; It is a simple, painless, effective and economical method.

Bone losses are usually in the back of the patients' jaws, and therefore this application can be applied to the anterior jawbone. With this technique, oral, dental and maxillofacial surgery clinics provide the patient with natural and beautiful looking teeth in the same day with a single surgical procedure.