Bone Graft - Advanced Smiles Dentistry

Bone

Graft

A dental bone graft is a minor surgical procedure that replaces missing bone with an artificial, synthetic or natural substitute. This procedure helps your bone tissue to regenerate completely and faster than the normal natural process. This way your dentist may accelerate your treatment with excellent results.

Your dentist will be starting your treatment with a complete oral and radiographic evaluation, then he will take a CT Scan to determinate the surgery approach. The bone graft procedure can be completed in one or two steps, depending on the case.

1

Immediately after the extraction, your dentist will clean the empty dental socket and fill it with pulverized bone. Then, he is going to cover the bone with a collagen membrane and finally, he will use suture to place a few stitches.

2

After at least 1 month after the dental extraction, your dentist will numb the area to avoid any discomfort during the procedure, then he will do a flap in the gum. The next step is to clean the dental socket and fill it with pulverized bone. Then, he is going to cover the bone with a collagen membrane and finally, he will use suture to place a few stitches.

After your procedure, your dentist will give you after care instructions and a prescription with antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and pain killers. After a couple weeks you should return for a post-surgical appointment for a checkup and to have your stitches removed.

When do you need this?

When a tooth is gone, the support-bone that used to surround it begins to reabsorb. It can give you a more aged appearance and can even complicate your replacing missing teeth treatment.

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Your body will replace the graft with its own bone in the next several months, reversing the decline in bone quantity and quality.

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