Tooth Extractions
in Redding, CA

Dr. Tucker and our team at Redding Dental Arts place a high priority on patient education and preventative dentistry. We also excel at treating and restoring damaged or infected teeth. Because of these facts, our patients often avoid the need for a dental extraction. However, sometimes a dental extraction is required despite the best efforts of everyone involved. Fortunately, our team can provide as pleasant a tooth extraction experience as is possible. If you require an extraction, please do not worry about the missing tooth. We offer many resolutions to missing teeth, such as bridges, dentures and dental implants.

Why would I need a tooth extracted?

Below are some of the most common reasons a tooth extraction may be required.

• An infected tooth. A tooth infection occurs when damage or tooth decay breaches the tooth and enters the pulp, or the center, of the tooth containing blood vessels and its nerve. This breach then allows bacteria in the mouth access to the tooth’s pulp, causing an infection. Fortunately, this issue can often be resolved with root canal treatment, which involves extracting the tooth’s pulp and resealing it to eliminate the infected material and prevent it from recurring. However, if an infection is left untreated for too long and becomes too severe, an extraction may be required.
• Gum disease. Sometimes gum diseases like periodontitis can affect the gums so severely that the teeth begin to loosen, which can require extractions to prevent damage or traumatic and unsupervised tooth loss.

What makes Redding Dental Arts so unique?

We are very committed to dental education, whether it is explaining what we found during a patient’s examination to offering advice to a parent whose child often forgets to brush. It is important to us that you know exactly what’s going on in your mouth and how to keep it as healthy as possible throughout your life. In light of this celebration of knowledge, Dr. Tucker regularly pursues continuing education and training so that he is always on the cutting edge of dentistry and able to provide treatment with a level of quality seldom found elsewhere.