Oral surgery is surgery to treat various diseases, injuries and defects in the mouth, jaws or head (should it be affected). A medical and dental speciality in its own right, oral surgeries tend to focus on the hard and soft tissues in and around the mouth.

 

The most common oral surgeries include wisdom tooth extractions, dental implants, corrective jaw surgery, reconstructive surgery, and tissue or bone grafts.

 

Wisdom teeth for instance, may start surfacing at the back of one’s jaw well after one’s permanent adult teeth have already formed and settled, causing the wisdom tooth to fight for space along the back of the jaw and press painfully into the gums.

 

Before starting the procedure, the dentist would inject you with a local anaesthesia to numb the side of your face where the tooth is; a general anaesthesia would be used should many wisdom teeth need to be extracted.  To remove the wisdom