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When
a patient is missing a tooth or teeth, the jawbone around that
area will reduce in size. When this occurs, the area that the
tooth or teeth used to be no longer supports a tooth the way
it once did. In circumstances like this, patients typically
are not candidates for dental implants without increasing the
amount of bone in that area.
Oral & Maxillofacial surgery allows the capability of growing
bone in areas such as these so that it may be, once again, suitable
for dental implants. This gives the patient the ability to restore
their natural look and feel inside their mouth without having
serious complications down the road. A longer lasting permanent
artificial tooth solution has been made further available by
bone grafting.
There are many surgical options for obtaining and placing
bone grafts. In some situations, bone may need to be harvested
from the patient’s own bone. However, there are now
many situations in which synthetic bone can be used. Depending
on the situation, surgery may be performed in the office or
hospital. Regardless of where the surgery is performed, it
is often a day surgery procedure.
Platelet Rich Plasma
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is used in our office to enhance
the healing process after a bone grafting procedure. Everyone’s
blood (plasma) contains rich platelets that we are able to
extract from the blood and use on the gums to provide additional
growth and speed up the process by which the gums can cure.
The extraction of blood and platelet from the patient is
transparent to the operation and can be incorporated in the
procedure without adding any noticeable additional time to
the process. We utilize this to assist our patients in a fast
recovery, making your bone grafting procedure go as successful
as possible.
If you have questions or concerns regarding Platelet Rich
Plasma, please contact us.
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The Centre for Oral Surgery in Joliet