Osseous Surgery

What is Osseous Surgery?

Osseous surgery is a periodontal procedure in which the dentist either removes some of the infected bone tissues around the infected tooth or reshapes them. When you suffer from periodontitis, the bacterial infection can spread to your bones. This gum surgery gets rid of that infection, reshapes the bone, and reattaches the gum to the tooth to reverse some of the damage caused by periodontal disease. 

Description of Osseous Periodontal Surgery

The gum surgery or periodontal procedure includes the following steps.

• The dentist numbs the infected region by applying anesthesia so you don’t feel anything.
• The dentist will make a small incision on the affected gum tissues. After that, they’ll pull back the gum tissue to open up the infected bone.
• Once the dentist has access to the root, they’ll clear it out and remove all the debris and deposits. The dentist will also smoothen the bone surface and reshape it.
• The gum tissue will be sutured up again so that the wound can heal.
• In some cases, it’s possible that the bacterial infection has lead to severe bone loss. If you don’t have sufficient bone to support the tooth, the dentist will have to conduct a bone grafting procedure to facilitate bone regeneration. During this procedure, the dentist will use grafting material from other parts of your body, other animals, other individuals, or synthetic materials and plant them in the affected region. This will facilitate bone regeneration and your natural bone will eventually replace the grafted bone. This will restore your bone structure to support the weakened tooth.

When and Why is Osseous Periodontal Procedure Necessary?

Brushing and flossing your teeth isn’t enough to remove all of the food particles stuck between your teeth and gums. It’s especially difficult to remove all of the food particles from the deeper recesses of your mouth. These food particles gradually turn into plaque and tartar, and then they attract bacterial infection. When this happens, you suffer from the initial stage of gum disease called gingivitis. Over time, the bacterial infection spreads below the gum line and also infects your bone, which leads to periodontitis. If you treat gum disease early, you can simply get rid of the infection with a simple deep cleaning procedure. But if you allow the gum disease to persist, it will infect a considerable portion of your bone structure. In that case, dental deep cleaning is useless and if you don’t do anything, the disease will eventually cause your teeth to fall out or rot away. That’s when osseous surgery is a last resort to save your infected tooth and reverse some of the damage caused by periodontitis. This procedure will get rid of the infection from your bone and also reshape the bone and perhaps use bone grafts to aid with bone regeneration.