Extraction Bone Preservation Denver Dentist
Bone Preservation post tooth extraction
When a tooth is removed the bone that supported the tooth melts away. In addition, in time, this melting away continues where the gun ridge becomes both shorter and narrower. Denver Dentists Dr. James DeLapp and Dr. H. Candace DeLapp want to preserve as much bone as possible for a variety of reasons described below. This Denver and Highlands Ranch dental office serves Lone Tree, Castle Pines, Parker, Aurora, Greenwood Village, Ken Caryl, and Centennial areas of Colorado.
Dental Implant Placement Denver Dentistry
One of the many criteria used by our Denver implants dentist are the volume both height and width of the bone in the edentulous space (where the tooth is missing). Horowitz et al (2009) in Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistrydescribes a study in which a synthetic bone was added to the extraction site. These authors used pure phase beta tricalcium phostpate to help preserve the ride volume after a tooth was extracted and prior to dental implant being placed. This bone augmentation preserved 91% of the bone volume when compared to 50% with out the augmentation.
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A tooth or dental implant helps preserve bone
A tooth or dental implant helps preserve bone in the jaw. There have been postulated may reasons why this occurs but the good news it does. If a tooth is extracted and bone augmentation is accomplished a dental implant needs to be placed in the next 6 months to one years or the bone will melt away again. The key to remember is a tooth or dental implant keeps bone!
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