niamh boyle | oral surgery | implant dentistry
BA BDent Sc MFD FFD(OSOM) RCSI

Procedures can be carried out under local anaesthesia alone or with additional
monitored intravenous sedation
if appropriate for anxious patients .

There are a variety of circumstances where your general dentist will decide that a referral to an oral surgery clinic is required.

Oral surgery aims to correct a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and defects in the jaws and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.
A number of conditions may require oral surgery, including:

-Dentoalveolar Surgery

-Removal of impacted wisdom teeth

-Removal of retained roots/fractured teeth

-Apicectomy and retrograde root canal treatment

-Exposure/removal of impacted teeth prior to orthodontic treatment

-Enucleation of cystic lesions of the jaws

-Pre-prosthetic surgery

Removal of minor soft tissue lesions