Thank you for visiting us and seeking critical information about dental implants or dental bone grafting procedures. Your dentist may be advising you that a bone graft must be placed to preserve your jaw shape. It is very important to follow the post-treatment instructions your dentist gives you. However, it is just as important to ask the questions you need of your health care professional before accepting the bone graft treatment. The survival of your dental implant depends on it. The better informed you are, the better you can understand the importance of making the right choices, especially when it comes to your health and wholeness.
For Patients
It is imperative that you are aware that most dentists are still using 50-year-old technology when it comes to dental bone grafting materials and don’t realize there are newer, safer options. Many dentists are still not aware that their current use and understanding of cadaver bone graft materials is inaccurate and not supported by modern science.
What should you do now?
- Ask your dentist about using our products for your procedure
- Contact us to find a dentist near you who uses our products
- Contact us to schedule a consultation with Dr. Steiner himself in Roseville, CA
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If You Choose Not to Have a Graft
When a tooth is removed, bone in the socket is exposed to the oral environment and is filled with bacteria. To prevent the bone from being infected, our bodies produce an inflammatory response.
The extraction socket begins to fill with a gelatinous fibrin clot that is packed with inflammatory cells sent to the area by your body to fight infection. If infection is warded off, your gums will slowly grow over the fibrin clot and the clot is converted into a very dense fibrous tissue. This fibrous tissue is very slowly replaced with bone over a period of months.
However, because the bone is left exposed to heal on its own without the aid of a bone graft, the body reacts with an intense inflammatory reaction, resulting in a significant amount of bone loss during the healing process.
Due to the bone loss in the extracted area, the socket wall that once held the tooth in place collapses, resulting in poorly fitting appliances and often an insufficient amount of bone needed to for a dental implant.
This is what is expected in the normal healing of an extraction socket that is not grafted.
Healing complications can also occur when an extracted site is left to heal on its own. A common complication is a dry socket. Dry socket occurs when the fibrin clot fails to stay in the socket during the healing and the socket becomes infected. This is a very painful condition requiring considerable time and treatment to resolve. It is also very important to understand the type of bone graft that your doctor is recommending and why choosing a science-based, biocompatible bone graft will play a crucial role in the long-term success of your implants.
Our bone graft products contain an organic compound that enters your bone-producing cells (osteoblasts) to make them productive. This compound is essential in the role of bone formation and without it, natural bone will not form.
The compound already exists in the body, but because our bodies lack adequate amounts of it to regenerate enough new bone, your dentist would have to to place our bone graft in the affected area. Since the bone that will form is new, it will be stronger, healthier, and more vital.
Activating the Osteoblasts
When our bone graft is placed into your socket, the material works as a matrix for your osteoblasts to migrate onto. As the osteoblast cells encounter our organic compound, they begin to absorb it through their cell membrane. After processing the compound, the osteoblasts secrete an unmineralized organic matrix called osteoid, which is based on your own genetic information. When the osteoid begins to mineralize, it encases the osteoblasts within the matrix, which mature into permanent new bone cells!
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