Bone Grafting - Smithfield, NC
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Enhancing Your Smile’s Longevity with Bone Grafting Procedures
If you have one or more missing teeth or have had a tooth extracted, restoring proper bone levels in your jaw is necessary. As the foundation of your smile, your bone plays a vital 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, lip and cheek support loss, and jaw joint issues. Without proper bone support, you may be unable to replace your teeth with dentures or dental implants. To help ensure that these functional and aesthetic consequences do not occur or worsen, our team at Smithfield, NC provides bone grafting in Smithfield, NC. This procedure restores the jawbone volume or density lost due to missing teeth to improve oral health and function.
The Benefits of Bone Grafting
Bone grafting seems like a functional treatment to improve oral health. However, this treatment also has more widespread benefits. Tooth and bone loss can lead to numerous problems affecting your eating ability, oral and physical health, and personal well-being.
By restoring bone levels in your jaw, our Smithfield, NC team can treat infection and disease, replace missing teeth with restorations like dental bridges and dentures, and prepare you for dental implants. Having a smile restored to proper function and esthetics can significantly improve your confidence, health, and quality of life!
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. We offer bone grafting in Smithfield, NC to restore the proper density, height, and width of the bone in the jaw. We partner with multiple third-party financing companies to make your treatment affordable and achievable. In general, bone grafting may involve one or more of the following procedures:
- Socket preservation is a bone grafting procedure our team completes after tooth extraction. This involves packing bone graft material into the empty tooth socket. Socket preservation slows the resorption process where the tooth is missing. It can also help preserve the health of the bone until a dental implant can be placed.
- Ridge Augmentation: Bone grafting is a specialized oral surgery treatment that involves replacing bone levels in the jaw. Usually, bone loss is ongoing due to missing teeth and needs to be treated to support a denture or dental implant. A bone grafting procedure involves taking bone from the patient or a donor source and placing it at the site of bone resorption. Once the sutures are in place, the area can heal for a few months to let the bone grafting material and jawbone integrate.
- Sinus Lifts: A sinus lift is a surgical procedure to increase bone in the upper jaw for dental implants. It is performed when bone height is insufficient or the sinuses are too close to the jaw, complicating implant placement. The procedure involves making an incision in the gum, elevating the sinus membrane, and placing a bone graft, which integrates with the existing bone over several months to provide a solid foundation for implants.
Restore Healthy Bone and a Complete Smile!
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