Introduction:

        Minor oral surgical procedures are carried out for the following:

Impactions: Impaction is a condition when a normal and usually fully formed tooth is embedded in the jaw bone and trapped in it due to lack of space for the tooth to erupt. This happens :-
 

• when the overlying milk tooth has not shed at its right time,
• or due to small size of the jaw.

Apicoectomies: Sometimes, when a patient has injury to the front of the face, causing damage to the front teeth, infection occurs in these teeth which, over a period of time, leads to pus formation below the roots of these damaged teeth. This is a very painful condition. In such a case, an RCT of the tooth is performed. Usually the pus drains through the opening made through the tooth structure but sometimes the pus remains below the roots of the teeth and does not drain out.
Then it is necessary to surgically open the bone below the affected tooth and then remove the pus manually, with the help of a curette ( a sharp instrument ).
 
 

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