The type of anaesthetic you receive will depend upon a number of factors including
- The difficulty of the procedure
- How anxious or nervous you are or,
- Where you undergo your wisdom teeth removal – e.g. Hospital or chair-side at the dentists.
Typically patients will be asked to avoid eating or drinking for a certain amount of hours prior to oral surgery depending on the type of anaesthetic they receive.
Once any ability to feel pain has been tackled, our team of dentists here at No Gaps Dental or an oral surgeon will use a specialist tool to disconnect and loosen the connective tissue situated around the problem tooth.
Once this is done, the wisdom tooth can often be quickly and easily removed. For more difficult or complex wisdom teeth removal, the tooth or teeth may need to be divided up into sections and taken out piece by piece. Either way, the whole extraction process requires more finesse than force.
Once the offending tooth is extracted, the site will be plugged using a piece of gauze. This is to promote blood clotting and will quickly help the area to heal. If the gum has had to be cut and any bone removed, then the dentist will use either self-dissolvable sutures or sutures that are removed one week later.
The whole process can take anything from a few minutes to twenty minutes or more per tooth depending upon the complexity of the extraction, but in any case, the actual wisdom tooth removal surgery should be comfortable for a patient. In fact, in many instances, extraction serves to alleviate any pain previously felt from an impacted or problem tooth.
