BONE REGENERATION

Your bone and gum tissue should fit snugly around your teeth like a turtleneck around your neck. When you have periodontal disease, this supporting tissue and bone is destroyed and pockets develop.   It is sometimes possible to add bone graft material to the bone defects, eliminating the periodontal pocket.  If untreated, however, too much bone may be lost and the teeth will need to be extracted.

Today, it is often possible to re-grow or regenerate bone where we need it for the support of dental implants. This, in turn, gives us the opportunity to more effectively restore esthetics and function to their natural state.

This regenerative technology lends itself to a technique called ridge preservation. This is the careful management of sockets after tooth extraction with the goal of preventing unsightly bone indentations or "defects" and a better cosmetic outcome of tooth replacement.