Extraction/tooth Removal

An impacted tooth is a tooth that, for some reason, gets blocked while it is erupting (pushing) through the gum into your mouth. Sometimes a tooth may be only partially impacted, meaning it has started to break through.
 
An impacted tooth can be painless. You may not even realize it is there In such cases, it is only discovered during an X-ray at the dentist's office.
 
Simple extraction
We perform this procedure on a tooth that can be seen in the mouth. Initially, we use local anesthesia to make the tooth and the surrounding areas become numb(insensitive). Then, we loosen the tooth with an instrument called elevator that helps to break down the tissues supporting the tooth. Finally, we pull out the tooth using a pair of forceps.
 
Surgical extraction:
This is a bit complex procedure, which we do only in some particular cases like:
if a tooth may have broken off at the gum line
if the tooth has not erupted in the mouth (such tooth is called an impacted tooth), this is generally in the case of wisdom teeth.
if a tooth is too large to be extracted in one piece
During this procedure, we make a small incision (surgical cut) on the gum to access the affected tooth. If the tooth is too large, we may break it into small pieces to remove it. For impacted wisdom teeth, we may need to cut away some gum tissue. Then we loosen it from the jawbone and finally pull it out using the forceps.