(General Information)
You will typically need a bone graft when getting a dental implant if the implant site does not have enough bone volume to support the appropriate sized implant.
The bone graft is very safe and effective in the dental implant restoration. Once it is placed, it will help replace missing bone, stimulate bone formation and increase bone volume
The success of a dental implant, it's ability to support a dental restoration, is very much dependent upon how much bone is available in the site where the implant is placed. There are lots of things that affect the bone volume including things like periodontal disease, trauma and infections and it is not unusual to open up a site in the mouth for implant placement and find out that some of the critical supporting bone is missing.
We have great techniques available to us to replace missing bone. We can increase the height of bone and the width of bone. We can fill in anatomical voids in bone thereby creating new bone and we can fill in all sorts of defects that develop when teeth are lost. We can even use grafting techniques to prevent the loss of bone in circumstances where bone would normally be lost like the extraction of a tooth.
The patient, a young boy, used to have a "toothless" smile. The patient now is able to have his social life back.
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The boy's mouth before... |
Titanium Implants conbined to bone grafting |
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The boy's smile before... |
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Case performed by Dr. Fernando Almeida
The Story about a Beautiful Smile...
