Milk Tooth Extraction

Caries sometimes progresses to the living (nerve-pulp) part of the inner part of the tooth, causing an inflammation that reaches the jawbone from the roots of the tooth. Your child’s face swells and they become restless by experiencing severe pain. It is extremely wrong to keep this milk tooth in the mouth in terms of the child’s health.

If the tooth causing discomfort is a milk tooth and the eruption time of the permanent tooth from below is near, the tooth should be extracted without any harm. If there is more time to the eruption of the permanent tooth, a placeholder apparatus should be placed instead of the extracted tooth.

If it is in a permanent tooth, this decision should be well reviewed before the extraction procedure and if there is nothing left to do, the tooth should be extracted.

After the extraction of the tooth, if the child’s age is appropriate, orthodontic treatment should be started right away, the gap should be filled with other teeth, and a correct closing relation should be ensured between the lower and upper teeth. If the location of the extracted permanent tooth is left randomly, the adjacent teeth bend towards this gap. The tooth opposite to the gap extends toward the gap and the balance of the entire tooth may be disturbed due to one tooth.