Preserving smiles, repairing bone loss:
FAQs about socket grafting treatment
Your smile is more than a set of healthy, attractive-looking teeth. As periodontists, Dr. Jean-Max Jean-Pierre has specialized knowledge and experience in preventing, diagnosing, and treating conditions affecting supportive tissues. These hard and soft tissues surround, protect, and stabilize the teeth in the jaw. Due to this advanced skill level and onsite capabilities, our team at the Periodontal Center of Georgia offers many services that cannot be found at dentists’ offices in Conyers and beyond, including socket grafting.
What is socket grafting?
Also known as socket preservation, this treatment refers to maintaining the health of the opening in your bone where each tooth resides. The tooth is held in place in this socket via ligaments. Bones in the jaw, however, can deteriorate due to tooth loss. This process starts immediately after a tooth is extracted. It can progress very quickly, leading to a collapsed or sunken appearance to the lips, cheeks, and lower face, as well as challenges with day-to-day functions like eating and speech. Socket grafting preserves healthy bone and prevents the process of resorption. Bone grafting techniques may also be recommended to repair the effects of bone loss, effectively rebuilding the structural support of the jaw.
How is socket preservation performed?
The specific techniques that we use vary and are based on your needs; however, these treatments generally involve applying bone or a tissue substitute to the area that can either use the additional support or is vulnerable to deterioration. For instance, the “graft” is applied to the site of an extraction to minimize the risk of bone loss after a tooth is removed. We then protect the site by covering up the new bone with gums or tissue.
What can I expect afterward?
This process helps to unlock your body’s natural regenerative properties. To resolve existing bone loss, the graft encourages healing and stops further resorption and the collapse of the facial structure. It can also be used to avoid this common complication of tooth loss.
Why should I choose the Periodontal Center of Georgia?
We are your true center and destination for all services related to the supportive structures and tissues of the mouth, jaws, and face, including periodontal. You can trust our specialists’ expertise and knowledge in rebuilding and sustaining the health of these vital tissues. We have the expertise and technologies to support predictable, safe, and comfortable treatments, regardless of the unique complexities or challenges associated with your specific situation or case.
If you have experienced tooth loss and are concerned about changes to your mouth, do not hesitate to contact our team in Conyers, Georgia—call (770) 767-0603 to schedule your consultation today.