Tooth Extraction (Part II)

Today we are going to keep talking about that very common and avoided dental procedure: Tooth Extraction.

As we mentioned on our previous post, Tooth Extraction is not a painful procedure and should be taken care very seriously. On our last post, I gave some general information that should be helpful for all of us. So today I’m sharing some other information that I’m sure you’ll find it very interesting and helpful.

WHAT KIND OF TOOTH NEEDS TO BE REMOVED?

1. Tooth extraction is relative opposite to other treatment. According to the skills of the dentist, many teeth can be repaired and regained to their function. Situations where it is necessary a tooth extraction.

a) When any other treatment can't be done due to an advanced condition of periodontal disease.

b) When the teeth can't be repaired due to severe dental caries. But if the teeth root and gums situation is good, it is also possible to use a dental crown or overdenture so it's not necessary a tooth extraction.

c) When it is not possible a root canal treatment or other root or gums treatments.

d) Dental trauma due to injuries or subgingival fracture or root fracture that can't be repaired. Bones fractures on the line of the tooth must be treated according to every patients situation, because sometimes it is possible to preserve the teeth.

e) Shifting or impacted teeth if they affect the function or appearance of the mouth, if they cause sickness or traumatism, are usually extracted.

f) Impacted tooth causing dental caries or pericoronitis to the adjacent tooth, are usually extracted.

g) Supernumerary tooth that are malpositioned or affecting the function or appearance of other teeth should be extracted.

(Other treatments that require tooth extraction: Ortodontics treatments that require reduction of the number of teeth; for a proper restauration of some teeth, sometimes it is necessary to extract neighboring teeth; before radiation treatments to avoid a complication of the situation of already sick teeth; teeth with benign tumors or cyst)

Detained milk teeth must be extracted, however, in the adult dentition of deciduous teeth, below the non-permanent or permanent impacted, such as deciduous and there is no loosening function, it is not necessary to remove the teeth.

Teeth suspected of having certain dental diseases should also be extracted. Infected teeth causing local diseases such as mandibular osteomyelitis, maxillary sinus lessions, etc, should be urgently brought under control and when the acute inflammation or infection is controled, then the dentist should proceed to the tooth extraction.

Happy "Niu" Year!

This last week was probably one of the most important weeks in China, it was our Spring Festival or "Chunjie". We are celebrating the beginning of the Chinese Year of the "Ox"! The Joinway Dental team Congratulates all its friend on this new year of the Ox.
For those of you not quite familiar with the Chinese Calendar, here's a brief introduction:

The Chinese calendar is a lunar calendar and it is divided into 12 months of 29 or 30 days (compensating for the lunar month's mean duration of 29 days, 12 hr,

44.05 min).

This calendar is synchronized with the solar year by the addition of extra months at fixed intervals.

The Chinese calendar runs on a 60-year cycle. The cycles 1876-1935 and 1936-95, with the years grouped under their 12 animal designation, along with the first 24 years of the current cycle.

This current cycle began in 1996 and will last until 2055. Feb. 9, 2005, marks the beginning of the year 4703 in the Chinese calendar, and is designated the Year of the Rooster.

In the Chinese calendar, the beginning of the year falls somewhere between late January and early February.
The Chinese have adopted the Western calendar since 1911, but the lunar calendar is still used for festive occasions such as the Chinese New Year. Many Chinese calendars will print both the solar dates and the Chinese lunar dates.

The order of the 12 animals on the Chinese Calendar has a very curious origin, according to the Chinese legend, the twelve animals quarreled one day as to who was to head the cycle of years. The gods were asked to decide and they held a contest: whoever was to reach the opposite bank of the river would be first, and the rest of the animals would receive their years according
to their finish.

All the twelve animals gathered at the river bank and jumped in. Unknown to the ox, the rat had jumped upon his back. As the ox was about to jump ashore, the rat jumped off the ox's back, and
won the race. The pig, who was very lazy, ended up last.
That is why the rat is the first year of the animal cycle, the ox second, and the pig last.

The current Chinese Year of the Ox represents and wealth and prosperity, for Ox is a symbol of powerful individuals with unyielding and stubborn personalities.
People born under this sing are natural born leaders who typically succeed when
given the chance . They are upright, inspiring, easy-going and
conservative.

I hope you find this information interesting and leave us some comments with your opinion.