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Can treatment restore bone loss or does it only prevent further bone loss?
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Depends: Depends on the cause for bone loss. If due to most common reasons such as osteopenia or osteoporosis, treatment can restore bone loss.
Answered 11/10/2012
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Repair, regeneration: Repair is a condition where there is no regeneration of the bone loss but only heal and prevent the further bone loss. Intraorally, the procedures that leads to repair would be flap surgery and debridement. Regeneration is the result from the guided tissue regeneration procedures where new bone and new attachments achieved.
Answered 4/27/2014
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