Dental Office in Smithtown
Smithtown Dental Office
The term “bone grafting” can sound a little scary. However, at Contemporary Dental Implant Centre, you will receive the best dental care using the most advanced techniques, equipment, and materials. We have a team of highly experienced oral surgeons at our dental office in Smithtown who specialize in bone grafting, and will be sure to make your entire experience is as comfortable and anxiety-free as possible. And that all begins by educating our patients on this procedure.
Dental Office in Smithtown
In the instance of a missing tooth or many missing teeth, a few things can happen. Once a tooth is removed, the bone doesn’t have anything to support anymore. Over a period of time, the jawbone associated with missing teeth atrophies or is reabsorbed. This often leaves a condition in which there is poor quality and quantity of bone and subsequently those patients would not be candidates for dental implants. Today, however, our dental office in Smithtown has the ability to grow bone where needed. This not only gives us the opportunity to place implants of proper length and width, it also gives us a chance to restore functionality and esthetic appearance. Bone grafting can repair implant sites with inadequate bone structure due to previous extractions, gum disease, or injuries. Major bone grafts are typically performed to repair defects of the jaws. These defects may arise as a result of traumatic injuries, tumor surgery, or congenital defects. Large defects are repaired using the patient’s own bone, harvested from a number of different sites depending on the size of the defect.
Although bone grafting is a surgical procedure which can sometimes be rather extensive, it plays a very important role in making new teeth possible. If you would like to learn more about our dental office in Smithtown or our oral surgeons, we highly recommend that you visit our practice’s main website to browse through some additional, detailed information that you might find useful. If you have any specific questions or concerns regarding bone grafting, or any of our other procedures, please do not hesitate to contact the staff here directly.