Dental and facial injuries can negatively impact your oral health, appearance, and general health. Luckily, help is available. Have you encountered dental and facial injuries while going about your normal activities? The Woodlands dental and facial injuries specialist, Oscar Muñiz, DMD, MD, is at your service. Schedule your consultation online or via phone today to discover how you may get relief from your condition and improve your life’s quality.
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What Are Dental and Facial Injuries?
Accidental falls, car crashes, and work-related injuries are all common causes of dental and facial injuries. Other examples of common dental and face injuries include:
· Intraoral lacerations.
· Fractured facial bones (like your cheek, nose, or eye socket).
· Facial lacerations.
· Fractured jaw.
· Knocked-out teeth.
Dental and facial injuries are unusual in that they can result in significant mental distress and physical harm. Injuries to the face and mouth are excruciating since they are significant to your appearance and feeling of self.
Dr. Muñiz and his team of oral and maxillofacial surgeons at Oral Facial Surgery Specialists at The Woodlands are fluent in both the art and science of treating dental and facial injuries. They have the experience and ability to provide treatments that succeed in the long term and are skillful in emergency care and acute treatment.
You can be sure that you will gain a VIP experience at Oral Facial Surgery Specialists at the Woodland by adopting the services of board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeons who regularly treat dental and facial injuries.
Is There Treatment for Soft Tissue Injuries?
Soft tissue defects, such as a face or gum laceration, typically involve sutures. Dr. Muñiz is very careful to restore your health while ensuring long-term cosmetic results in treating soft tissue injury.
How Do You Treat Facial Bone Injuries?
Treating face-bone lesions is identical to treating fractures elsewhere in the body. It is so because the objective is to reposition and stabilize the damaged bones to improve your body’s healing capability.
You cannot stabilize a facial fracture with a cast, unlike other bones in your body. Dr. Muñiz inserts small plates and screws on your fracture site to stabilize your facial bones. This technique is known as rigid fixation and is advantageous to other methods, such as jaw cabling, for faster recovery time.
Dr. Muñiz ensures that the long-term impact that your surgery can have on your appearance is minimal when treating your face bone injury. He uses as few incisions as possible and makes them strategically placed on your face to hide or minimize any scarring symptoms.
Treatment of Dental Injuries
Dr. Muñiz collaborates with dental specialists such as endodontists and restorative dentists to restore and replace teeth that have been shattered or completely knocked out. If your damaged tooth cannot efficiently be repaired, it can usually be replaced by high-quality dental implants.
If you need to learn more concerning your available alternatives for facial and dental injuries, do not hesitate to book a visit with Oral Facial Surgery Specialists at The Woodlands today. Contact the office on the phone or use the online booking tool.
