Oral Surgery

If oral surgery has been recommended for you or a loved one, then this is the section for you! Read about various oral surgery procedures, strategies for pain management after dental surgery, and how to avoid oral surgery in the future.

Our Placerville dentists often get questions about dental matters. Here is the answer to a question about tooth piercing.

Placerville Oral Surgery Questions Answered

Surgery — it’s a frightening word for some. Nevertheless, oral surgery is often needed to restore dental health. When you’re the patient, you probably will have questions, so our local Placerville dentists want to answer some of those that are frequently...

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An impacted wisdom tooth damages its neighbor from below.

When to Extract Wisdom Teeth

Wisdom teeth come in last, between 17-25 years of age. If there is enough space in the jaw for these third molars, you can make full use of them. On the other hand, they may be impacted, squeezed beneath the second molars, leading to pain and damage to surrounding...

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