What is dental bone grafting?

Building bone: Usually in an extraction socket at the time a tooth is removed. This is usually done when planning an implant replacement.

Bone augmenting : Bone grafting is when bone is added to preexisting bone to increase the quantity of bone in an area. The grafting material often comes in a particulate form and is formulated in specialized labs. It it often added in to a tooth socket after an extraction to prevent bone loss after an extraction.

Bone graft: Bone grafting is performed to preserve and or increase the width or the height of the deficient jaw bone in patients who have bone loss due to loss of their teeth over the years. This is particularly useful when placing dental implants.

Rebuilding a defect: Dental bone grafting is reconstructive surgery performed to replace missing bone for purposes of adding a dental implant or prosthesis of some kind. There are various types of bone grafting methods and procedures depending on the volume and type of bone which needs reconstructed, and the area of the mouth in which this needs to be performed. Your implant surgeon will discuss this with you.

Dental Bone Graft: A Dental bone graft is the surgical procedure where an area of the jaw is "built up" or reconstructed using a portion of your own bone from another site, tissue banked human bone, xenograft (usually bovine derived), synthetic bone or rhBMP which is a protien that "tell" you body to grow bone. All types have there own pros and cons