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Bone Related Surgery
Missing or extracted tooth? Our Dental implants hold the key to transforming your smile. Let us guide you through the process, exploring the benefits of bone augmentation and the possibilities of dental implants.
When you need to replace a missing or extracted tooth, a dental implant can transform your smile. These incredible restorations look and function like a regular tooth, but they also require an adequate amount of jawbone for successful implantation. Fortunately, bone augmentation procedures like bone grafting can help restore the density and volume of your jawbone.
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Bone augmentation
Bone augmentation, also referred to as bone grafting, is a procedure typically needed when the current bone mass of your jaw is not suitable to successfully incorporate dental implants. Luckily, in this day and age, our doctors are able to grow bone where it is needed.
When bone mass is too thin or soft to keep an implant in place, a bone augmentation will help so the bone can fuse to the dental implant and keep it secure. If a dental implant is placed in the jaw where bone structure is not sufficient, the likelihood of an implant failing increases.
Reasons for bone Loss
If you have gum disease, this may cause the jawbone to recede and teeth to loosen. This happens because bacteria slowly eats at the jawbone and leads to periodontal misalignment. After undergoing gum disease treatment, bone grafting can help restore the foundation and strengthen your teeth.
If you have crooked teeth, it can be difficult to properly clean between them, leaving bacteria to grow, which leads to tooth decay and gum disease. If not treated, gum disease can progress to periodontitis, an infection that damages bone and teeth. Bone grafting will then be needed to restore the damaged jawbone.
Some birth defects are characterized by parts of missing teeth, facial bones, or jaw. A bone grafting can help restore function and growth where there isn’t any, and provide adequate support for an implant.
Tooth trauma, such as from teeth grinding or bruxism, can put extra pressure on the teeth and wear away at the surrounding tissue supporting the tooth structure. Bone grafting may be needed to reverse the effects of bone deterioration, restoring function and promoting new bone growth in traumatized areas.
Bone augmentation
Bone grafting is one type of procedure. Depending on the situation, other types of procedures may be suggested to build bone in your mouth and support dental implants.
Sinus lift or subantral graft
This procedure raises the sinus floor to increase the bone’s height in your upper jaw above the premolar and molar teeth to support the placement of dental implants.
Ridge expansion
This surgical procedure divides the jawbone into an inner and outer section to insert bone graft material, create new bone, and widen the jaw to support dental implants.
Distraction osteogenesis
This procedure makes a shorter bone into a longer bone by cutting it into two pieces, slowly pulling the two pieces apart and encouraging new bone to form and fill the space.
Alveolar ridge preservation or socket preservation
This surgical procedure reduces bone loss after tooth extraction by placing a bone substitute in the socket and covering it with a barrier membrane directly after removal.
Like dental bone grafts, most other bone augmentation procedures only sound like a complex or invasive procedure. In reality, your dental professional can quickly perform most surgeries needed to support bone growth and development. In four to six months, you can have the healthy bone structure required to support dental implant.
Faq
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What To Expect during the procedure?
- Length of Procedure
Bone augmentation procedures typically take less than 30 minutes. You can expect to be in our office 1.5 to 2 hours which accounts for consultation, procedure and in-office recovery time. - Before Your Appointment
Your entire medical and dental history will be required and all the information about the medications your are taking. We may also ask for your physician’s consent & or modification of your medications if required.
- Length of Procedure
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Tips For A Speedy Recovery?
After your procedure, you may notice some of the bone particulates working their way out of the socket. This may feel “gritty” in the mouth. This is completely normal and no cause for concern. In some cases, a membrane placed over the socket will come loose after a couple of weeks; this is also no cause for concern. We will remove the membrane as needed at your follow up appointment. As the bone augmentation site heals, you will come in for follow-up appointments with your oral surgeon every few weeks to ensure the bone is healing properly. Once completely healed, you will be scheduled for your dental implant to be placed.
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Recovery Instructions?
- After your procedure, a nurse will take you to one of our state-of-the-art recovery rooms. Our rooms are equipped with high-tech monitoring to ensure your safety.
- We will inform your driver when you are in recovery and show them to your room to go over recovery instructions.
- Your nurse will stay to answer any other questions you may have before leaving our office and will send printed recovery instructions home with you for your convenience.
- When you get home, we recommend a lot of rest, icing and to begin taking your pain medication before existing numbness wears off.
- We will send you home with a recovery kit that includes extra gauze and gloves for bleeding.
- Slight to severe tingling of the lip, chin and tongue is normal and will be temporary.
- Take off work/school the day of your procedure, as well as the following day. You may want to take off more days depending on how you feel.
- After your procedure, enjoy a cup of gourmet ice cream on us!