Bone Grafting

Your jawbone plays a key role in supporting your teeth and gums. Unfortunately, in cases of severe periodontal infection, may actually begin to dissolve and be reabsorbed by your body. This bone loss can eventually lead to the loss of your teeth. The first step of treatment is to remove the periodontal disease, which halts the bone loss. Then we repair the damage that has occurred. In many cases, various bone grafting techniques can be used to re-grow some of the jawbone that was lost.

Procedure: Dr Vickery will make a small incision into your gum to gain access to your jaw bone. He then removes the periodontal disease, repairs the bone damage and fills in the damaged area with bone grafting material. The grafting material is made of processed bone minerals around which your body will naturally deposit new bone cells which leads to bone regeneration.