Dental Bone Grafting

You need healthy bone for
aesthetics, stability, and health. And that’s where dental bone grafting comes in.

A bone graft creates, stability, aesthetics, stimulation.

• Aesthetics. Bone augmentation actually restores the natural jawline of mouth.
• Anchors teeth better. Builds up bone around teeth, so teeth are better anchored and more stable.
• Stimulates new bone growth. Did you know that bone augmentation can stimultate new bone growth? Once the bone is restored to it’s natural ‘youthful’ state, it can maintain bone growth!
• Stimulates tissue. It also promotes the growth of tissue, especially around the teeth or implant or bone.
• Keeps tissue healthy. This also makes for healthier mouth tissue – If you don’t have enough bone, the tissue in your mouth (gingiva) turns to cheek tissue (mucosa).
• Anchors gums. It also provides more stability to gingiva – which is where cheek tissue becomes anchored to jawbone.
• Denture stability. Helpful in denture stability, too. Because bone augmetation improves tissue connection with bone – and stimulates new tissue growth – dentures won’t ‘slap around’. It’s kind of like a loose shoe – it’s more prone to falling off if your foot is too small!
• The foundation of dental implants. It adds strength to each ridge to facilitate the placement of implants into that bone.

More on bone augmentation and surgery.

What is a dental bone graft and bone augmentation surgery?

Bone deficiency occurs from previous extractions of teeth, or where teeth have been out of mouth for a long time.  Where bone has deteriorated, bone grafts must be placed. Bone grafting is placed where there is a necessity to reinforce the arch. This “bone melting” can be caused when dentures cause pressure atrophy.

What it’s used for.

Bone surgery is used to repair damage done to the gums, teeth, and bone of the mouth. The damage is usually done through periodontal disease, which is a bacterial infection of the gums, bone and ligaments that support the teeth and anchor them in the jaw.

Dr. Potts does bone augmentation surgery in the areas of the mouth to increase bone height and architecture to permit the placement of dental implants.