Bone Grafting - Seminole, FL

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The Reason for Bone Grafting

If you have one or more missing 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 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, loss of lip and cheek support, and jaw joint problems. Without enough bone support, you may not be able to replace your teeth with dentures or dental implants.

Bone grafting can help you experience a better quality of life with dental implants.

To help ensure that these functional and aesthetic consequences do not occur or worsen, our dentist and dental team at NuSmile Dental provide bone grafting in Seminole, FL. This procedure restores the jawbone volume or density that has been lost due to missing teeth to improve your oral health and function.

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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 Seminole, FL with the purpose of restoring the proper density, height, and width of the bone in the jaw. We partner with multiple insurance providers to make your treatment affordable and achievable. In general, bone grafting may involve one or more of the following procedures:

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Socket Preservation

Socket preservation is a bone grafting procedure our dentist 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

Ridge Augmentation

Ridge augmentation refers to a bone grafting procedure that restores the natural density and contours of part or the entirety of a jaw ridge. Restoring healthy bone levels to a jaw arch can make dentures more comfortable and fitted to your gumline.

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Sinus Lift

When bone in the premolar or molar areas of the jaw has lost density or volume, you may benefit from receiving a sinus lift in Seminole, FL. Gently lifting the sinus cavity, bone grafting material can be placed to restore proper bone height.

Bone grafting has direct benefits for your health and future quality of life.

Bone grafting has direct benefits for your health and future quality of life.

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, your oral and physical health, as well as your personal wellbeing. By restoring bone levels in your jaw, our Seminole, FL team can treat infection and disease and replace 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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Why do I need a bone graft before receiving a dental implant? +
When a natural tooth is lost or extracted, the surrounding alveolar bone loses its biological stimulation and rapidly resorbs (shrinks). A dental implant requires adequate vertical height and horizontal width of dense bone to lock into place securely. A bone graft provides a mineral framework that stimulates your body to regenerate strong, living bone to permanently support the implant fixture.
Does the bone grafting procedure hurt? +
No. The procedure is performed under thorough local anesthesia, meaning the surgical area is completely numb. For patients with dental anxiety or those having extensive grafting, we also provide comfortable oral or IV sedation options. Mild post-operative tenderness is comparable to a minor extraction and is easily controlled with over-the-counter pain relievers within a few days.
Where does the bone graft material come from? +
At NuSmile Dental, we utilize safe, sterile, medical-grade bone matrices from certified tissue banks. These include allografts (human donor bone treated to remove all cellular material, leaving only the structural mineral matrix), xenografts (mineralized bovine matrix that provides long-term scaffolding), or synthetic bioactive ceramics. Over several months, your body gradually replaces this matrix with your own natural bone.
How long does a bone graft take to heal before an implant can be placed? +
Healing timelines depend on the volume of bone grafted. Minor socket preservation grafts placed at the time of an extraction typically mature in 3 to 4 months. More extensive ridge augmentations or sinus floor lifts require 4 to 6 months of cellular remodeling before the jawbone reaches peak density to support an implant.
What is the difference between a socket preservation graft and a sinus lift? +
A socket preservation graft is placed immediately into the empty tooth root socket right after an extraction to prevent the socket walls from collapsing inwards. A sinus lift is performed specifically in the upper back jaw, where the sinus cavity sits close to the jawbone; we gently raise the sinus membrane and insert bone material underneath to create the vertical bone height required for upper molar implants.

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