Dental extractions can be performed by a general dentist or a specialist maxillo-facial surgeon. Usually, if teeth are badly decayed, infected, loose, or painful it may need to be extracted. Sometimes, we can perform root canal treatment to save a tooth. Local anaesthetic is used to numb the area before the tooth/teeth are extracted. X-rays are usually taken of any tooth to be extracted to determine how easy or difficult the extraction procedure could be. If it is a straight forward extraction then we would consider it as a simple extraction. Sometimes, teeth are fused to the bone or have curved roots and this may complicate the extraction procedure. In this case, we usually perform a surgical extraction using drills to remove the tooth.
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