No one wants to have to undergo surgery for any reason, and the tenderness of the mouth makes the prospect of surgical work there even less appealing.
However, if it is necessary, it is good to have the work done at a time convenient to you, in a place where you feel comfortable, and with people you know looking after you.
As a student at King’s College Dental School in London, I would spend any free time in the Minor Oral Surgery department doing any surgery that offered.
In Practice I continued to do my own surgery rather than referring to Hospital, and starting to place implants in 1998 increased both the amount and scope of the surgery that I experienced.
Today we refer very little and can offer to perform any minor surgery needed in-house.