Our dentist in Los Angeles offers in-house bone grafting services to help strengthen your smile and support areas that have experienced unwanted structural loss. Otherwise, the health of your teeth or dental implants may be jeopardized.
You may be wondering how a bone graft can help your teeth at all. To put it simply, your jawbone is what helps to serve as an anchor to each individual tooth. If for some reason, bone begins to shrink away, the tooth can become mobile and unable to withstand even normal biting or chewing. Eventually, the gums creep back as well. If you’ve heard the phrase “long in the teeth,” this is what is implied.
After loss of bone structure, comes loss of teeth…and then prosthetics such as partials, dentures, or dental implants. Fortunately, our dentists can help to prevent the need for such therapies if we intervene early enough.
Bone Loss Caused by Gum Disease
Untreated periodontal disease causes problems like swollen gums and bleeding…but deep down, it also destroys the bone around your teeth. As part of your periodontal treatment plan, professionals at Crystal Dental Centers may recommend placing a bone graft in an area following your deep cleaning. This can help to stabilize at-risk areas.
Promoting Successful Implant Therapy
If you need to have a dental implant placed in an area where a tooth has recently been extracted (or even missing for an extended period of time,) a bone graft can help to accelerate new bone growth and fusion around your artificial tooth root. This ensures that there is enough bone to hold the implant in place, so that it does not fall out.
Not every Los Angeles dentist offers bone grafting, but we do. For further information, call Crystal Dental Centers to schedule a no-hassle appointment today 213.748.8448 or visit http://CrystalDentalCenters.com.
