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Oral Surgery, Oral Surgeon - see Extractions, Implants, Wisdom
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Image	Photo Description
	Treatment of a tongue-tied patient. The top photos were taken before treatment and the bottom photos were taken following a frenulectomy. A frenulectomy is a conservative procedure, typically performed by an Oral Surgeon or Periodontist, that involves cutting the lingual frenum to allow more movement of the tongue.
	Oral surgery treatment following accidental trauma to a teeth bridge. 1) The initial xray showing the three teeth bridge and severe damage to the second premolar tooth. 2) The second molar tooth has a furcation involvement and thickening of the periodontal ligament space - pdl space - around the mesial root. The second premolar tooth and the mesial root of the second molar were extracted. 3) Photo following wound healing. The patient declined dental implants and wanted a new longer span fixed dental bridge. 4) Radiographic healing of the distal root of the second molar after six weeks. Sometimes - even in this age of dental implants - there is still value in saving individual roots of molar teeth.
	Extraction of two impacted teeth by an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon. How to pictures: 1) Xray radiograph shows the double impaction of teeth # 1 and 2. Photos 2) - 6) Different views showing the large osseous defect in bone and the significant exposure of the distal furcation of the first molar tooth. 7) - 8) The bone defect is packed with a freeze-dried bone graft and gelfoam.
	An Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and Orthodontist work together on the treatment of the orthodontic eruption of a palatally-impacted canine tooth. 1) Starting x-ray. 2) Starting photo. 3) and 4) Pictures show eleven months after the surgical exposure of the canine tooth.
Information about these dental photos In medicine and dentistry "left" and "right" are based upon the orientation of the patient's body and not how they appear in a photograph of a smile. For example, a reference to the upper left teeth will actually appear to be on the right side when viewing a picture of the face and similarly an upper right tooth will appear to be on the left side. Many words in dentistry like oral and mouth have a similar meaning and are frequently used together to help our readers find specific words they best understand. This is particularly important because a majority of our visitors are from countries where English is not their primary language. Maxilla or maxillary refer to the upper jaw. Mandible or mandibular refer to the lower jaw. There are many other similar word combinations used throughout this website because our pages are read by patients and dentists. A few of the most common are discussed here. Tooth decay, tooth cavity and dental caries all mean the same thing. Tooth, teeth and dental are also frequently interchanged as in teeth veneers or dental veneer laminate. Oral rehabilitation and dental reconstruction mean smile makeover. The word for x-ray may be used with or without a hyphen (this is true for other words too) and can also be called a radiograph.

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