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Bone Grafting Builds Your Bone to Improve Your Esthetics and Oral Function
Natalie K. Provenzano DDS, Inc. offers bone grafting services to improve dental stability and function while maintaining facial shape and esthetics. Adding volume and density to your jawbone improves your dental health and makes you eligible for dental procedures like dental implants.
Have you been told you need a bone graft in San Jose, California? There’s no one better to perform the procedure than our in-house Oral Surgeon, Dr. Or Simel. With over 20 years of experience in dentistry, our Team will expertly rebuild your bone to support your oral health now and in the future.
Why bone grafting is necessary
Your teeth help you with more than chewing and looking beautiful. Your teeth naturally stimulate your jawbone to support its growth. If you lose teeth due to injury, decay, or disease, the areas with missing teeth experience bone resorption in your jaw.
You might think you have enough time to save your bone after tooth loss. Unfortunately, the process starts immediately after you lose your pearly whites. Within the first year of tooth loss, most people lose about 25% of bone in the toothless area.
Bone grafting can replace the lost bone to stabilize the upper or lower arch. Anyone with bone loss may benefit from bone grafting. Dr. Provenzano may recommend bone grafting in the following cases:
- To replace your missing teeth with dental implants
- To improve your facial esthetics
- To rebuild your jaw after gum disease
- After facial or dental trauma
- To add volume and density to your naturally thin jawbone
Bone grafting involves taking dental graft material from another source and adding it to the area with bone loss. Dental grafts can come from your body (autogenous), animal tissue (xenograft), or human donors (allograft). Sometimes, your bone graft can be lab-made (alloplastic graft). Your doctor will walk you through the options and choose the one that best fits your unique needs.
What to expect from the bone grafting procedure
Before bone grafting, your dentist undertakes a comprehensive dental exam using digital X-rays and 3D scans to determine areas that need grafting. The dental grafting procedure is an outpatient procedure that takes about 45 minutes. After administering local anesthesia, we make a small incision on the gums to expose your bone. We then add the graft to your bone and stitch it to kick-start healing. During healing, the bone graft material will integrate with the jawbone, improving bone density and promoting bone regeneration. After surgery, most patients take a few days to recover, but your treatment needs three to six months for full bone integration to occur.
Bone grafting services near me
Have you been told you can’t benefit from dental implants because of insufficient jawbone? Is your face looking older than you are because of a sunken jaw?
Natalie K. Provenzano DDS, Inc. can change your situation for the better. Call (408) 226-2542 to schedule your appointment today!
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Dr. Or Simel
Dr. Natalie Provenzano has been practicing dentistry since 2002 when she graduated from the University of Southern California Dental School in the class’ top 10. She served on the school’s ethics committee and was a member of the Oral Sedation Team and the National Dental Honor Society, Omicron Kappa Upsilon. She also received the American Association of Women Dentists’ Female Dentist of the Year Award.
Also an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Biology, Dr. Provenzano was an active member of Ignatians Service Organization and Delta Gamma Fraternity and was chosen for the Order of Omega and Delta Sigma Nu Honor Societies.
Oral surgeon Dr. Or Simel has been practicing dentistry since 2009. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry (DDS), UCSF School of Medicine (MD), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, (BS/Biology), and UCSF School of Dentistry (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery). He graduated Summa Cum Laude and was on the Dean’s List, and National Dental Honor Society, Omicron Kappa Upsilon.
He is a member of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, American Dental Association, and California Dental Association.
Together, they provide exceptional general, cosmetic, and restorative dentistry to patients of all ages in the area.