When you lose mass and density in your jaw, which usually follows tooth loss, this could weaken your smile. As a result, even if you want dental implants, your jaw may not be able to support them. But we can help! In today’s blog, your Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgeons talk about making dental implants possible with jawbone grafting.
The Loss of Your Teeth
We could lose our teeth to injuries, tooth decay and infection, or even the advanced stage of gum disease. When you lose your teeth, the body will take notice and in response, will suspend the flow of calcium and phosphorus to the jawbone. Without these nutrients, the areas around the missing roots gradually break down, which leads to further tooth loss and even an aged appearance. Which means there may not be enough structure to support dental implants, limiting your ability to replace missing teeth. But we can help rebuild your smile with ridge augmentation, also known as jawbone grafting.
Planning Your Oral Surgery
With digital x-rays and CBCT imagery, we can take a close and panoramic look at your smile, so we can assess the strength of your jawbone in detail. We can then plan the grafting procedure and also the eventual dental implant placement too. The imaging systems use 90% less radiation and provide detailed high-definition images. We can plan the process in detail. In addition, to ensure you are comfortable, our team will administer a local anesthetic and sedation to help you enter a state of calm and relaxation, often with little to no memory of the procedure at all.
The Ridge Augmentation Procedure
With ridge augmentation, we will add nerve structures to the lower jaw to strengthen the weakened portions. Once we attach these materials, this can provide a matrix to stimulate new growth of bone structure, and to ensure there is enough of a base to support one or more dental implants, so your smile can support a fixed set of dentures. The new materials will be synthetic in nature, or possibly taken from other parts of your body. Our team could also discuss All-On-Four, a form of implant denture that requires less structure to support.
If you have any questions about how our team will support new teeth with jawbone grafting, then contact our team today to learn more. We want to help you smile with confidence again!
Schedule Your Tooth Loss Treatment in Santa Rosa, CA
Our team is ready to help strengthen your jaw and make sure you can enjoy a full smile again. To learn more about rebuilding smiles to make implant placement possible, then give us a call at Santa Rosa Oral Surgery at (707)545-4625 today!
