Retraction Cord to Extract a Tooth

[tinman831]

So I had a prosthodontic instructor tell me, the other day, that leaving retraction cord in for a long period of time will start to dissect the PBL fibers away from the tooth in the apical direction. This has been used as a possible method of extracting a tooth. Just wondering if there was any truth to this method or was my instructor just messing with me?

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[OceanDMD]

So I had a prosthodontic instructor tell me, the other day, that leaving retraction cord in for a long period of time will start to dissect the PBL fibers away from the tooth in the apical direction. This has been used as a possible method of extracting a tooth. Just wondering if there was any truth to this method or was my instructor just messing with me?

Thats ******ed. What that causes is infection. Most extractions take less than 10 minutes. Sounds like hes messing. A spoon elevator takes care of the "pbl fibers" in about 10 seconds.

 

[SydB]

Thats ******ed. What that causes is infection. Most extractions take less than 10 minutes. Your Pros prof sounds clueless. A spoon elevator takes car of the "pbl fibers" in about 10 seconds.

easy he was just asking a question and trying to start a discussion, but once again someone hiding behind a computer jumped all over him. I think people on here try to make up for being bullied when they were younger.

 

[Thaxil]

easy he was just asking a question and trying to start a discussion, but once again someone hiding behind a computer jumped all over him. I think people on here try to make up for being bullied when they were younger.

Ok Dr Phil, I like your psychoanalysis. A retraction cord will at the most cause a gingival abscess.

 

[aphistis]

So I had a prosthodontic instructor tell me, the other day, that leaving retraction cord in for a long period of time will start to dissect the PBL fibers away from the tooth in the apical direction. This has been used as a possible method of extracting a tooth. Just wondering if there was any truth to this method or was my instructor just messing with me?

Like Ocean said, a spoon (or more to my tastes, a periosteal elevator) will dissect those PDL fibers in a very, very short period of time. If he was being serious, your pros faculty's suggestion is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard out of a dentist's mouth.

 

[UKdent]

So thats why he is a prosthodontist.... I had an oral surgeon tell me that he performs SRP with an elevator, but for some reason every time he thought he had engaged the calculus the tooth came out... funny stuff this dentistry...

 

[OceanDMD]

easy he was just asking a question and trying to start a discussion, but once again someone hiding behind a computer jumped all over him. I think people on here try to make up for being bullied when they were younger.

Gosh, you have me really self reflecting about myself. Maybe i am a jerk.............Nahhh, grow a pair. You need a little thicker skin in this profession. I dont think I jumped on the poster, but the itiotic comment made by his pros prof.

 

[Cold Front]

So I had a prosthodontic instructor tell me, the other day, that leaving retraction cord in for a long period of time will start to dissect the PBL fibers away from the tooth in the apical direction. This has been used as a possible method of extracting a tooth. Just wondering if there was any truth to this method or was my instructor just messing with me?

It's a good thing that you got this cleared up now with others, otherwise you would be considering it as a treatment option for your patients. 😀

 

[doc toothache]

Retraction cords may not work but elastics placed on the upper centrals to close diastema do have the unintended effect.

 

[lotexigeus]

lol what's a pbl fiber

 

[Saddleshoes]

This may be a dental “urban legend” but……...
I have heard of a method to remove a single rooted tooth for a hemophilic patient by placing a small rubber band around the cervix of the tooth. As the rubber band contracts it squeezes its way down the root and slowly luxates the tooth right out of there with no blood loss over the course of several weeks.

 

[aphistis]

This may be a dental “urban legend” but……...
I have heard of a method to remove a single rooted tooth for a hemophilic patient by placing a small rubber band around the cervix of the tooth. As the rubber band contracts it squeezes its way down the root and slowly luxates the tooth right out of there with no blood loss over the course of several weeks.

You can actually perform a painless full-mouth extraction on somebody if you simply tell them to leave their mouth open continuously for 24 months. It's true. I read it on Wikipedia.

 

[armorshell]

This may be a dental "urban legend" but……...
I have heard of a method to remove a single rooted tooth for a hemophilic patient by placing a small rubber band around the cervix of the tooth. As the rubber band contracts it squeezes its way down the root and slowly luxates the tooth right out of there with no blood loss over the course of several weeks.

While I don't know anything about this (which seems mighty fishy), there was recently a study published by Regev, Lustmann and Nashef in JOMS on atraumatic extractions for the prevention of BRONJ in which the investigators successfully extracted teeth from patients on bisphosphonates using slow orthodontic eruption.

 

[crazy_sherm]

lol what's a pbl fiber

I think its the fiber found at USC that keeps you from graduating on time.

 

[lotexigeus]

I think its the fiber found at USC that keeps you from graduating on time.

🤣🤣

 

[tinman831]

I think its the fiber found at USC that keeps you from graduating on time.

Sorry. I was preparing for a PBL session and it was on my mind. Thanks everyone for clearing that up for me.

 

[ivorinedust]

I once tried the "retraction cord" extraction method--on myself when I was about 7 years old. I tried a string on a wiggly milk tooth, tied the other end on a doorknob of an open door, and then kicked the door shut. Tooth came out with the retraction cord.

Ivorinedust
Apolonia relieved my toothache!

 

[preOMFS]

lol what's a pbl fiber

I think they mead PDL fiber. Periodontal ligament.

 

[lotexigeus]

I think they mead PDL fiber. Periodontal ligament.

nah, i don't think that's what he meant.