Bone Preservation and Regeneration

When it comes to oral health, nothing is more fundamental than your bones. Your jawbone anchors your teeth and gums.

Sometimes teeth need to be removed because they have suffered trauma or are filled with decay. In this case, not only do you lose a tooth its function, but the jaw bone will atrophy without a healthy tooth in place. If left alone, this reduction in bone mass can lead to a variety of other problems. For example, you could suffer from malocclusion — a situation that develops when the natural tensions between teeth becomes unbalanced, causing teeth to shift significantly and revealing new spaces and places for bacteria to accumulate.

To counteract bone atrophy at the site of a missing tooth and prevent any adverse results, our periodontal specialists use techniques called bone regeneration and bone preservation for Roseville, CA patients. These procedures maintain proper bone density in preparation for a dental implant.

Do you have one or more missing teeth? Have you suffered other dental issues because of the missing space? We encourage you to call our practice and explore the idea of bone preservation and regeneration.

How Roseville Bone Preservation Works

As done by our specialists in Roseville, CA, bone preservation is a minimally invasive approach that we conduct immediately following an extraction to maintain the existing bone structure underneath a removed tooth. It is very predictable, simple and easy, and therefore a more preferable form of bone regeneration.

Bone regeneration is the grafting of bone tissue into an implant site after significant time has passed since the removal of a tooth. Periodontal specialists Hakimi and Vasanthan can restore 30-70% of your bone material at the implant site. Over time, the grafted bone triggers your own bone material to regenerate in the graft location.

During the bone regeneration procedure, we access your bone and add either donor graft material or your own graft material in order to regain lost thickness and height at the region planned for a future implant. With a bone graft, the supplemental tissue quickly develops into regenerated bone tissue, which can later be strong and healthy enough to support a dental implant restoration. Pretty amazing stuff!

If you are preparing for a dental implant, make sure it’s a predictable and smooth procedure by calling one of our periodontal specialists to discuss the merits of bone preservation and regeneration.