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Advanced periodontal disease, tooth fracture, or other types of abscesses may cause sever bone loss around a tooth, requiring that the tooth be extracted.
When a tooth is extracted, healing occurs by a combination of shrinkage of the remaining extraction socket bone, and some bone growth from the base of the extraction site. The result is often loss of bone where the tooth used to be, and a depression in the remaining ridge of bone.
This problem can now be avoided. At the time the tooth is extracted, the area is filled with one of the number of resorbable calcium materials, and the area is covered with a membrane barrier.
The barrier prevents the gum tissue from growing into the extraction area, and protects the underlying calcium materials and the forming bone.
The calcium materials encourage your own bone to grow into the area, and these materials are totally resorbed and eliminated by the body.
This treatment will often result in the compete regeneration of the lost bone in the area of the tooth extraction.
Regenerating damaged and lost bone at the time of extraction of the tooth provides the following advantages:
- The bone between the extracted tooth and the adjacent tooth is preserved or regenerated. The health of the adjacent tooth is thus improved.
-A ridge deformity does not develop, and the appearance of the ridge is more natural. The esthetics of the area is preserved or improved.
-The regenerated bone allows placement of an implant to replace the missing tooth
If a ridge deformity exists because this procedure was not performed at the time the tooth was extracted, this procedure can be performed at a later date with beneficial results.
