Bone Grafting

We know it can be difficult to follow all of the steps that lead up to getting your dental implants, and our goal is to provide patients with an easily understood description of that process from start to finish. This week, our blog entries will describe several prodedures completed at Puget Sound Periodontics for new patients, or for those who's previous knowledge has gone in one ear and out the other. Bone grafting is the replacement or augmentation of bone around the teeth, and is needed to reverse bone loss caused by Periodontal disease, or other trauma to the mouth. It's used to augment the bone in preparation for a dental implant, or enhance the appearance of a missing tooth. When you lose a tooth, the surrounding bone collapses, and to salvage this bone for an implant placement a bone graft is needed. Bone grafts use bone taken from one area of the patient and transfered to an area requiring grafting, or if the patient has suffered sufficient bone loss, synthetic bone is used. Many patients will need bone grafting due to ill fitting dentures, or other trauma done to the teeth, and further information can be found on our website.