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Minimally-invasive tooth extraction: doorknobs and strings revisited! Daniel Saund Thomas Dietrich Dental Update 2024 40:4, 707-709.
Authors
DanielSaund
BDS, MFGDP, MFDS RCPS, MJDF RCS, M.ORAL.SURG
Department of Oral Surgery, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, The School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham, St Chad's Queensway, Birmingham B4 6NN, UK
Department of Oral Surgery, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, The School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham, St Chad's Queensway, Birmingham B4 6NN, UK
References to ‘atraumatic’ tooth extraction pervade the recent dental literature. This has been largely driven by the increasing demand for bone preservation as osseo-integrated implants increasingly become a mainstay for dental prosthetic rehabilitation. This article introduces the reader to the concept of vertical tooth removal, which aims to avoid socket expansion and thereby minimize trauma to alveolar bone during tooth extraction. Several systems have recently become available and we present our experience with the Benex extractor in particular.
Clinical Relevance: Clinicians should be aware of minimally invasive extraction techniques, their indications and potential advantages.
Article
Legend has it that, in days gone by, the practice of having a tooth ‘pulled’ by one end of a string being tied to the tooth and the other to a doorknob, and then slamming the door closed, was not such an uncommon practice. We are pleased to say that, as a profession, we have long moved on from such crude and unrefined approaches to tooth extraction.
Since the publication of Kay and Killey's article in the inaugural issue of this journal,1 extraction techniques have evolved by revisiting the principle of tooth ‘pulling’ (as was the case with the aforementioned home remedy), albeit with slightly more finesse and technical ingenuity, thanks to several extraction systems that have become available over the past decade. The basic principle of this technique is to extract the tooth exclusively by pulling along its long axis (vertical extraction). We will discuss the rationale for this technique and provide a detailed description of our experience with one of the available systems.
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