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Loss of posterior teeth results in excessive forces being placed on your remaining teeth. Fortunately, the use of dental implants and crowns allows you to replace these missing teeth.
However, the position of the sinus in the upper posterior areas may be too low for proper placement of dental implants.
A simple procedure allows the sinus floor to be repositioned, creating enough space to properly place an implant.
Various calcium grafting materials are used to encourage your bone to grow more quickly into the area, helping to stabilize the dental implant. These calcium grafting materials are replaced by your own bone as it grows into the area.
Under certain conditions, an even simpler procedure can be utilized. When possible, the bone remaining under the sinus floor is gently pushed up, thus lifting the floor of the dropped sinus.
Calcium bone replacement materials are then placed beneath this lifted bone. Once again, the bone replacement materials are replaced as your body grows new bone into this area.
Following sufficient healing of the sinus augmentation, implants are placed in the predictable and successful manner in 99% effective.
