By Dental Bone Surgery we mean a variety of safe, predictable and painless surgical techniques and operations that aim to restore damaged bone needed for implants - either by building (adding) or by stimulating the body to produce new bone (guided bone regeneration).
With the loss of teeth, the jaws lose their main function, called mastication. The bone is no longer stimulated and begins to atrophy (resorb); in extreme cases, it might reach the level of the basal bone, becoming a small useless piece.
The shape of the face also changes - from discrete transformations, in the case of the recent loss of a group of teeth, to dramatic transformations, in the case of old total edentations.
Some patients no longer have enough natural bone to optimally support the dental implants Skokie dentists install. The restoration of the lost bone is done by bone grafting maneuvers, as follows:
Bone addition - involves the addition of bone / biomaterial on a surface of the maxillary bones
Bone augmentation - involves filling with biomaterials an existing cavity in the maxillary bones (e.g. sinus or cavities from which cysts, tumors etc. have been removed).
As a mechanism, the bone can be repaired or regenerated. Bone grafting is possible because bone tissue, unlike most tissues in the body, has the ability to regenerate completely, provided it has enough growth space (the reason for using various space-maintaining devices and membranes). The native bone will grow and will gradually and completely include the graft material, resulting in a new bone.
