Biological Extractions: Ensuring Proper Healing and Meridian Restoration
Biological extractions are crucial for optimal healing and restoration of the body's natural energy pathways, or meridians. This process extends beyond merely removing a tooth; it involves meticulous techniques to ensure complete healing and meridian reconnection. Failing to fully address these aspects can result in incomplete healing, leading to complications such as cavitations or traumatic bone cysts, which are hidden voids within the jawbone that disrupt meridian connections.
The Process of Biological Extractions
Now, I can only explain what I do in OUR practice, because every dentist has a different process. However, if you have seen our videos where our patients speak about their experiences in our office when it comes to their extractions, for me, their results speak for themselves. In our practice, we emphasize a comprehensive approach to extractions, combining advanced techniques and biocompatible materials to promote effective healing. Here is an outline of the procedures we follow:
Initial Preparation
- Biocompatibility Testing: Every new patient process in our office includes biocompatibility testing. We believe that it's important to ensure that our patients' bodies like the materials we are going to use, be it local anesthetic or bone grafting material, filling materials, crown materials, cements, etc. We don't worry TOO much if a patient is not compatible with something that won't be in their body for long (we try to use anesthetic a person's body likes, but their bodies may not like ANY of the anesthetics, and it's important to be able to numb for an extraction. In the event that this happens, we will choose the anesthetic the patient's body likes the most. However, we won't use bone graft material for example, if a person's body doesn't like ANY of our grafting materials. At that point, we will choose to use only PRF (Platelet Rich Fibrin) rather than put something into your body that is supposed to be permanent, like a graft.
- Patient Numbing: We start by ensuring the patient is comfortably numbed.
- Blood Draw: We draw a sufficient amount of the patient’s blood, which ranges from 4 to 24 tubes depending on the number of teeth and the severity of the bone defect. This blood will be used for socket grafting post-extraction.
Tooth and Ligament Removal
- Complete Removal: We meticulously remove the tooth along with all periodontal ligament (PDL) tissue. This step is essential to prevent future complications and to ensure the area heals thoroughly.
- Electroacupuncture (EAV): Using Electroacupuncture according to Voll, we restore bioelectric cellular communication disrupted by the diseased tooth or cavitation. Our goal is to achieve a reading of 50, indicating perfect cellular communication, though we accept consistent readings of 49 or 51. For those who don't know, the scale goes from 0-100, with 50 being the "perfect balance", so our goal is to achieve the 50.
Grafting and Healing
- Grafting: We perform grafts at all surgical sites to prevent infections, post surgical bone defects (sometimes referred to as Traumatic Bone Cysts or Cavitations), and to maintain the site’s shape and size. We prefer using human bone or synthetic bone grafts, avoiding animal-derived materials to prevent cross-species compatibility issues. If no compatible material is found, we use ONLY Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PRF), derived from the patient’s blood, although it does not maintain bone levels as effectively as grafts.
- PRF Preparation: We separate PRF from the blood cells and mix it with compatible graft material, if applicable. PRF is also used to create a membrane, which we use to suture the site, ensuring no risk of rejection.
Final Steps
- Ozone Insufflation: To sterilize the socket and enhance healing, we insufflate the area with ozone, which also oxygenates the PRF and surrounding blood and bone. It supercharges the healing process.
- Photobiomodulation: We apply laser treatment to the surgical site to further promote healing.
- Recovery IV: This has only been possible for us in this past year. The state of Texas doesn't allow dentists to do IV recovery kind of things without a medical director. We are fortunate to have that medical director now, so we can do the IVs for our patients. The IVs consist of vitamins and minerals, glutathione and amino acids to aid in the recovery of our patients from their surgery and amalgam removal procedures.
Benefits and Outcomes
Our meticulous approach significantly reduces the risk of post-operative infections, dry sockets, traumatic bony cysts, and ischemic bone disease. Most patients experience minimal to no post-operative pain and recover swiftly. Additionally, by ensuring proper grafting at the time of extraction, we minimize the need for invasive procedures later on. Because of that, since 2016 when started doing extractions this way, not a single patient has developed a dry socket, and we can count post operative infections on the fingers of one hand.
Importance of Grafting
Discussing grafting options with patients before extraction is crucial. Many practitioners overlook this, resulting in patients needing more complicated and painful procedures later. Grafting at the time of extraction ensures better outcomes and easier recovery.
Conclusion
Biological extractions, when done correctly, offer comprehensive healing and restore the body's natural energy pathways. By employing advanced techniques and biocompatible materials, we ensure optimal patient outcomes, promoting faster recovery and long-term oral health. For those considering extractions, choosing a dentist skilled in biological extraction methods is paramount to achieving the best possible healing and overall health.