subject: Dental Surgeons [print this page] Oral surgeon dentists are dentists whose services specialize in oral surgery. Oran surgeon dentists would be able to complete all of the services that a general dentist would complete in preventative care, etc. because oral surgeon dentists first part of dental school includes general dentistry training. Any dentists-to-be must complete general dentistry schooling and then move on to specialized dentists skills and training. And so it is with oral surgeon dentists.
One example of the services oral surgeon dentists may choose to provide to the public is wisdom teeth extraction. Because of the growing awareness of dental health care and dental services, oral surgeon dentists can make their services only be wisdom teeth extraction if they wanted to focus their work on one set type of oral surgery. Wisdom teeth extraction is something that dental research is finding should be done to every dental patient to prevent the problems that wisdom teeth can cause. So, if everyone should have their wisdom teeth removed, think of all the work oral surgeon dentists have in providing just this one dental service to everyone.
Wisdom teeth extraction services require great care and attention to details by the oral surgeon dentists. Oral surgeon dentists will most likely hire a sedation dentist to take care of the work in ensuring that the dental patient stays sedated so that the oral surgeon dentists can focus on the work of the surgery. Dental services such as wisdom teeth extraction require follow-up visits and special after-care instructions by oral surgeon dentists. There are dental complications such as dry-socket that could occur during the healing after the dentists services. Good oral surgeon dentists will provide follow-up appointments to ensure that the dental patient doesn't need further treatment for dental healing after the dental work or surgery.
Oral surgeon dentists should also provide a consultation before the dental surgery to ensure that there is an understanding between dental patients and the oral surgeon dentists on what is going to happen and the services that will be rendered.
Other example of oral surgeon dentists may include cosmetic dentistry and/or maxillofacial surgeon dentists. Cosmetic dentists often perform dental surgery services in correcting dental problems from dental accidents or genetic dental issues. Cosmetic dentists may perform surgery to fix, for example, a cleft pallet or some other birth defect that involves dental care and dental structures. Cosmetic dentists may also perform dental services and corrective surgery to repair dental bone and missing teeth or broken teeth after an accident. Cosmetic dentists may have to perform bone graft and other dental tissue grafting services in such cases.
Maxillofacial surgeon dentists would also provide these types of corrective surgical services as well as prosthodontic dental services. Prosthodontic services include dentists services that replace missing teeth and broken teeth with fake teeth that are meant to look like natural teeth. Dentists providing these types of dental services must be trained in how to use such dental materials as dental plastics, dental metals, dental porcelain, and other dental materials to fill replace missing teeth.
Dentists providing these types of surgical dental services are doing more than just repairing dental structures, these dentists are repairing dental patient's confidence in their smile as well.
