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How much bone loss decades after tooth extraction?
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Let us help: The jawbone needs the physiological stimulus from the root of a tooth to maintain its volume. When you have a tooth extracted, the healing process causes the extraction site to remodel, and generally up to 25% of the bone is lost during the first year. .
Answered 1/1/2021
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Very variable: There is always some bone remodeling - bone loss. Now a days we graft the site to help slow the bone loss, but if the extraction was traumatic - then there will be more bone loss.
Answered 5/28/2019
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