Bone Preservation & Regeneration

Bone Preservation and Regeneration

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

If one of your teeth has suffered trauma or excessive decay and must be extracted, it leaves a gap between your teeth, but more importantly, it begins a process of bone atrophy at the site of the extracted tooth. If left alone, this reduction in bone mass can lead to a variety of other issues. For example, you could suffer from malocclusion - a situation that develops when the natural tensions between teeth goes awry, 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 preservation and bone regeneration to 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 these Roseville Dental Techniques Work

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. Roseville periodontal specialists Hakimi, Vasanthan and Townsend 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. The grafted bone acts like a scaffolding, holding everything in place while your own bone responds and regenerates at the site of the graft. 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 Auburn periodontal specialists to discuss the merits of bone preservation and regeneration.