Posts Tagged ‘ oral surgery ’

How To Keep Your Mouth Clean After Oral Surgery

How to Clean Your Mouth After Wisdom Teeth Removal  Keeping your mouth clean after oral surgery protects your healing tissue and supports a smoother recovery. Good habits, done the right way, help lower your risk of infection and complications like dry socket.  Dr. Geisler recommends avoiding all oral hygiene, including brushing, rinsing, and spitting, for the first twenty […]

How Not to Be Anxious Completing Oral Hygiene after Oral Surgery. You’ve Got This!

One of the most frequent questions we receive at Geisler OMS is how to keep the mouth clean after extraction of wisdom teeth, placement of dental implants or bone grafting. Many of our patients worry that they might disrupt healing or cause a dry socket by performing oral hygiene. This can cause a great deal of worry for some patients. Here are […]

Do I Really Need My Wisdom Teeth Removed?

Evaluating Wisdom Teeth As a surgeon, I am commonly asked by my patients and their families “Do I really need to have my wisdom teeth removed?” Everyone is hoping that my answer will be “No, of course not! Who gave you that crazy idea?!” If only it were so simple. How I decide whether you need […]

How Adversity Has Made Me A Better Surgeon

If you asked me what my favorite thing to do is, I would have to answer: “Operate!” Maybe that sounds weird to you, but I truly love what I do. I feel incredibly blessed to get to remove diseases that cause pain and suffering and put things right for my patients. It is deeply satisfying […]

My Greatest Reward

July 7th  began like any other day for me. I remember that there was a beautiful sunrise that morning. I had a compressed, busy schedule in my oral and maxillofacial surgery practice in Lake Oswego. “We have a trauma patient coming in, Doctor” my front staff informed me when I arrived at my office. We […]

How to Minimize Pain After Oral Surgery

Will Oral Surgery Be Painful? “How bad is it going to hurt?” At only sixty pounds, and with big blue eyes, my little patient looked at me asking me a fundamental question that I have been asked many times before. Jack was only seven years old but he knew what he was most frightened of […]

Women and Leadership

I was recently selected to become a member of the Oregon Dental Association Leadership Academy. As a participant of this group, I am learning how to become a more effective leader at both the community and state level. Here is my interview for the April 2018 Membership Matters, a publication for the Oregon Dental Association, […]

What Makes an Expert Dental Implant Surgeon?

  It seems everyone these days is calling themselves an expert at dental implant surgery. Some dentists take a short course in order to learn how to place dental implants in a few months (or weeks) of training. Others learn how to place dental implants during a specialty training program yet do not have hospital […]