What is minimally invasive tooth extraction

    Minimally invasive extraction, as the name suggests, is the extraction of complex teeth that are conventionally more invasive through minimal trauma. Just as laparoscopy is much less traumatic than traditional open surgery, minimally invasive tooth extraction has obvious advantages due to reduced damage and destruction of alveolar bone and soft tissues, small incision, less bleeding, less trauma to adjacent teeth and jaw bone joints, and thus significantly reduced complications such as postoperative swelling and pain with difficulty in opening, especially for the extraction of complex blocked wisdom teeth and buried multiple teeth.    To do a good job, we must first improve our tools. There are special extraction tools for minimally invasive extractions, and these extraction forceps are more delicate and refined, with better steel; there are also special turbo drills, etc. By dividing the tooth without the need for traditional operations such as hammering to increase the gap, jaw loosening or splitting the crown and chiseling the bone, the damage to the surrounding alveolar bone and jaw bone joints and the resulting postoperative complications are reduced. Patients are more comfortable when extracting teeth, which makes the development of tooth extraction in the direction of minimally invasive, comfortable and humanized. At present, only a few dentistry schools in China carry out this technology, and Hefei Stomatological Hospital is the first hospital in our province to adopt the turbodrill abrasion method for tooth extraction.    Of course, only the turbodrill abrasive extraction method is not a minimally invasive extraction in the full sense, there are also special minimally invasive extraction forceps and collars, etc. The vortex drill is good for complex low obstructed wisdom teeth; while the special minimally invasive extraction forceps and collars are good for general tooth extraction, the latter is not yet known to be used in any hospital in the province. I have been concerned about this matter since some years ago, but the tools are too expensive and increase the medical cost of patients, and I have also tried to improve the existing extraction trauma by declaring a research project without success.    It is true that even if there is a good tool, it may not be minimally invasive, but the key is in the person who operates the tool. Just like the Kuomintang failed to defeat the People’s Liberation Army even though they had excellent weapons. For those who are skilled, even the use of conventional tools is much less invasive than those so-called minimally invasive. Doctors without benevolence are overly focused on money just like masters without martial arts virtues. Only those who work carefully and responsibly, who strive for excellence, who are caring and experienced with patients will really make minimally invasive more subtle. But as a patient and how to screen, even to find acquaintances is based on their relationship to choose, then most rely on luck to strike.    Since I studied medicine, I have been very fortunate to meet strict teachers and famous teachers inside and outside the province, and I have encountered few setbacks in my clinical work. I have been pursuing technical progress and have gradually accumulated some experience in the extraction of complex obstructed wisdom teeth and buried teeth. Technology is based on past exercises, and now I can roughly foresee the possible discomfort after tooth extraction, which is incomparable with the technical level more than ten years ago, and the patients who come to me now are much luckier than the patients ten years ago. The life of a surgeon is short, and as I grow older, I believe that in a decade or so, I will not be as skilled as I used to be when my hands, eyes, and strength decline after I turn 50.