The Reason for Bone Grafting
If you’ve lost one or more teeth or have had a tooth extracted, it’s important to restore proper bone levels in your jaw. As the foundation of your smile, your bone plays an important role in your oral health and function. It supports your teeth and helps preserve your facial structure. But it needs the stimulation of tooth roots to remain dense and strong. When teeth are extracted or lost, the jawbone no longer receives stimulation and will resorb and shrink. Bone loss can lead to shifting and loosening of remaining teeth, loss of lip and cheek support, jaw joint problems, and more. To help ensure that these functional and aesthetic consequences do not occur or worsen, our team at Woodlawn Dental Center provides bone grafting in Cambridge, OH. This procedure restores the bone that has been lost in your jaw due to missing teeth to improve your oral health and function, especially if you need dentures.
The Process for Restoring Lost Bone
Bone grafting is a surgical procedure that involves placing dental bone graft material in areas where the bone has resorbed, or a tooth has been extracted. The purpose of bone grafting is to restore the proper density, height, and width of the bone in the jaw. Bone grafts can be either from the patient or from a donor source and may either be a bone block or granules. Bone grafting can also include a sinus lift when the premolar or molar areas of the jaw have lost density or volume. Gently lifting the sinus cavity, bone grafting material can be placed beneath to restore proper bone height. Our dentist, Dr. Franklin Maximo, has three decades of experience and has received hands-on training in bone grafting procedures completed in our Cambridge, OH practice. For more complex sinus lifts and ridge augmentations, we work closely with a local oral surgeon who has the expertise to provide custom treatment with predictable outcomes.
The Benefits of Bone Grafting
Bone grafting seems like just a functional treatment meant to improve your oral health. But this treatment also has more widespread benefits. Tooth and bone loss can lead to numerous problems that affect your ability to eat, oral and physical health, and personal wellbeing. By restoring bone levels in your jaw, we can treat any infection and disease as well as replace any missing teeth with restorations like dental bridges and dentures as well as prepare you for dental implants. Having a smile restored to proper function and aesthetics can significantly improve your confidence, health, and quality of life!
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