Dental surgery is a branch of dentistry that uses surgical methods to treat the oral cavity and surrounding areas.
The most common surgical procedures in dentistry include:
Extractions (the removal of teeth)
Chiselling of wisdom teeth
Maxillary sinus augmentation
Treatment of complicated abscesses and oro-facial fistulae
Apical root end resections, hemisections
Removal of fibromas, mucoceles, papillomas and other inflammatory lesions in the oral mucosa
Undercutting the frenulum
Treatment of benign and malicious neoplasms of the mouth and lips as well as tumour-like lesions