How Do You Fix Dental Bone Loss in Teeth?
Prevention is the most important weapon at our disposal, to fight the retraction of the dental bone tissue. Specifically, care must be taken to identify and resolve the pathologies, in order to prevent the problem by any means.
In the event that the bone deficiency is connected to an ongoing periodontitis, it is necessary to intervene by treating the disease, through oral hygiene sessions associated with root planing. The latter, also called scaling, is a type of periodontal therapy aimed at removing bacteria, tartar and plaque accumulated below the gum margins.
The goal is to reduce the depth of the periodontal pockets, stopping the phenomena of bacterial stagnation and therefore slowing down the course of periodontitis. Sometimes, root planing sessions are not sufficient, and it becomes advisable to subject the patient to periodontal surgery, aimed at eliminating the pockets and, where necessary and possible, adding new bone to fill the gaps.
Preventing possible diseases affecting the teeth and replacing lost teeth in time are necessary steps to prevent the loss of bone material from continuing inexorably, causing serious damage to the entire oral cavity. For those patients affected by the problem, who want to insert dental implants while having a low amount of bone, it is possible to resort to the application of bone grafts.
Dental bone regeneration is a very advanced surgical technique which consists in the application of mixtures of synthetic bone and organic bone on the bone to be regenerated, thus providing the body with the raw material necessary to restore bone volume where it is lacking.
The bone graft is always protected by a membrane, which prevents gingival cells from developing above the graft. This is necessary because gum cells develop much faster than bone cells, and could cover the graft before the bone cells have multiplied as desired.
This technique is generally used following a lack of dental leaks or extractions that have compromised the solidity of the jawbone, periodontal diseases, removal of cysts and neoplasms, osteoporosis, bone erosion in a patient who has worn a mobile prosthesis for a long time.
Dental bone regeneration: types of grafts
The techniques used for this practice are essentially two:
1. Regeneration with resorbable membranes
This technique involves the application of a particulate bone graft, composed of synthetic bone and biological bone (coming from animals, taken from the same patient or from a donor), under a membrane designed to be reabsorbed by the tissues and fixed with a micro pin in platinum. Once the membrane has dissolved, the dentist will only have to remove the pin. This type of membrane is particularly useful in the interventions necessary to restore the horizontal development of the bone.
2. Regeneration with non-resorbable membranes
The application system is identical to the previous one, but the non-resorbable membrane is used to restore deeply damaged bones, which have lost mainly millimeters in height or at the same time height and thickness. This type of membrane can solve even very serious problems: it is made of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene with a titanium core and is fixed with titanium pins or micro screws.
On the occasion of one or more dental extractions, it is instead necessary to quickly replace the lost teeth, through the installation of fixed prostheses on dental implants.
By integrating with the new artificial titanium roots, the bone has the opportunity to recreate a new condition of stability, stopping the retraction process of periodontal tissues, typical of edentulous. Implants are the ideal solution both to restore lost teeth and to stabilize a total mobile prosthesis that has a tendency to move.