Dental by Design

Do all bone fragments work themselves out after dental surgery?

I had major surgery back in November and all of a sudden I have a rather large...something, I guess a bone fragment, trying to poke through. What should I do? Will it come out by itsself in due time? Will it effect the stages of getting dental impressions done?

Public Comments

1. Bone fragments came take a while to surface. It will come out on it's own. You may need to have your gums checked, call the oral surgeons office and talk to the nurse and go with what she/he says. Yes, it can make a bad impression, especially if there is any swelling in your gums.
2. I have nvr heard this before to be quite honest, I would think it would cause a lot of pain if something tried to come out of the gum if it wasn't a healthy normal growing tooth especially if it was healing as in closing up! I always thought all tooth/bone fragments had to be removed since it may cause infection. Go back to where you went or call and ask for your doctor/dental surgeon to call you back and then have them give you an x-ray because you feel there is something trying to poke thorugh and the x-ray will show you. If I were you I would do this asap and in the mean time just keep you rmouth clean and rinse with warm salt water.
3. Just relax--- this happens sometimes ---but generally not after 2-3 months. Even then, please dont worry, if you feel this small fragment of bone/ splinter is so much shaky that you would be able to take it out yourself ---literally plucking it off . If you have already tried this, then please do visit a dentist who would spray some medicine which will make the tissues surrounding that bony spicule numb and he would immediately pluck it out with a tweezer. And you would have a sigh of relief. Yes, it has to be definitely out before you go for dental impressions. All the very best to you !!