Category: Bone Grafting

Smile Stability with Bone Grafting

The loss of a tooth can have a profound impact on both oral health and confidence. Fortunately, modern dentistry offers a transformative solution – bone grafting. In this blog, our team at Cerritos Dental Surgery in Cerritos, CA explores how the grafting procedures can play a pivotal role in stabilizing your smile after tooth loss, providing a… Read more »

A Practical Replacement For Missing Teeth

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If you have recently lost one or more of your teeth, you know the difficulties go beyond the effect on your personal appearance. In addition to creating an unsightly gap in your smile, tooth loss makes it hard to comfortably bite and chew at mealtime. This is because you shift your jaw in awkward positions… Read more »

New Stability For Your Jaw

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Grafting is a fascinating process in which biological material can take hold and thrive within your mouth. Oral surgeons use this form of procedure regularly within the dental profession, in multiple kinds of tissue. Primarily, this builds up areas where your natural biological material is lacking, due to infection or a process known as reabsorption…. Read more »

Bone Grafting: 3 Solid Reasons

On a basic level, you may quickly agree that repairing your jawbone with bone grafting sounds beneficial. A damaged jaw, after all, doesn’t sound like something that you want to live with. However, when you aren’t yet seeing any signs that this is really going to have a negative impact on you, it can make… Read more »

Bone Grafting: Let’s Quiz Your Knowledge!

Perhaps you have noticed that bone grafting is something that can help individuals dealing with jaw tissue damage. If you have experienced any amount of jaw deterioration, this oral surgery treatment may become something you feel you owe it to yourself to investigate. Fortunately, discovering more about it and how it may help you is… Read more »

Bone Grafting: Is It Something I Need?

Perhaps you have discovered that we offer bone grafting as one of our oral surgery services. You know, in a nutshell, that this means we can help you rebuild your jawbone if it’s become damaged in some way. However, as for whether or not you need it and precisely why we offer it, you might… Read more »

Am I a Candidate for Jawbone Grafting?

In general, routine dental care is pretty straight-forward. Brush and floss your teeth twice a day, attend checkups and cleanings as often as recommended, and when necessary, don’t hesitate to undergo a particular treatment. Sometimes, however, dental issues can cause more damage to your oral health than you realize, and a more extensive procedure, like… Read more »

What Causes Jawbone Deterioration?

When most people think of oral health, their teeth, gums, and other soft tissues are the first thing that comes to mind – rarely do people think about the condition of their jawbone. However, jawbone loss can not only change the size and shape of your jaw and face, but it can be detrimental to… Read more »

Bone Grafting: Bettering Your Oral Health

Jawbone deterioration is nothing to take lightly – it’s one of the worst consequences of lost teeth. Without the proper stimulation from the root of your tooth, it’s inevitable that you’ll begin to lose bone density and shape over time. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way – bone grafting has made it possible… Read more »

What Is A Bone Graft Procedure

There are circumstances when your jaw bone may atrophy or deteriorate; for instance, if you experience the loss of one or more teeth, or especially if you are fully edentulous. If there are no teeth implanted in your jaw bone your jaw bone will deteriorate. It is your teeth that keep your jaw bones healthy…. Read more »