Many patients who receive a bone graft will delay implant placement under the assumption that the bone graft will maintain the area for whenever they choose to have the implant placed. When this happens, it gives us an opportunity to evaluate how different types of bone grafts, like allografts and synthetics, perform over time.
In the first case, a patient had an extraction of a lower molar and the site was grafted with Socket Graft Plus. At the time of the extraction, it was noted that the buccal wall was missing. Socket Graft Plus was chosen as the graft material because it contains our 3rd generation beta tricalcium phosphate. The βTCP will not resorb until it is surrounded by bone. This maintains the volume of the socket until bone forms and the buccal wall is regenerated.
The second case is also a lower molar that was extracted uneventfully and the socket was grafted with mineralized freeze dried bone allograft.
