Dentoalveolar surgeries are the procedures most often performed by oral and maxillofacial surgeons. These are a group of procedures that involve adding, reshaping or removing hard and soft tissues supporting teeth and are mostly done under local anesthesia.
Types of dentoalveolar surgeries include:
Although extracting one or more teeth is the most common dentoalveolar surgery, any surgery that manages or treats the conditions listed above is known as a dentoalveolar procedure. Dentoalveolar surgery may be performed to eliminate acute or chronic infection, limit or eliminate pain, restore anatomical form or chewing ability, aid in other restorative procedures or remove an existing pathology.