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Bone Grafting
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Overview

Bone grafting is a complex procedure use to create more bone in your jaw. Essentially, the aim is to make your bone taller, and wider so that it can anchor an implant more securely for a longer period of time. If you compromise on this foundation (through the lack of bone grafting or using shorter or thinner implants),

 

Bone grafting will be required in the majority of patients seeking implant treatment as nature will often erode their existing bone through infection, and natural healing after tooth extraction or the ageing process. Not offering or considering this procedure before placing dental implants often highlights the lack of experience in doing implant dentistry.

Treatments

There are a number of procedures that come under this umbrella of bone grafting procedures. These are:

Sinus Grafting

where bone in the upper jaw is too short and needs to be made taller. This is achieved by adding bone into your sinus in order to increase the height of bone available to secure implants.

Guided Bone Regeneration

(also known as the Sausage Technique) – where bone in upper and lower jaws are too thin or skinny. In this procedure, bone is added to make it thicker so that regular implants instead of skinny implants can be placed. Naturally, regular sized implants will be stronger than skinny implants.

Block Grafting

This is another form of bone grafting where we remove bone from a part of your body, usually the lower corners, and attach it to areas where bone needs to be made thicker.

 

All these procedures can be minimised if we take the time to add bone graft material immediately after tooth extraction. This process is called ridge preservation and makes sense because it avoids doing all the complex procedures listed above by maintaining the bone dimensions immediately after tooth extraction.