Bone grafting is performed for many different reasons and situations, but the common element is that bone is regenerated with the use of a scaffold, which is usually allograft (cadaver bone), xenograft (from other animals, usually bovine/cow), or autograft (from yourself) and covered with a membrane. bone grafting can be performed around natural teeth to regenerate bone loss from periodontal disease or around implants to treat peri-implant disease. Bone grafting can be completed at the time of tooth extraction to preserve the volume of the existing bone (often called socket grafting or ridge preservation), or to grow bone in deficient areas to help support a dental implant (also called ridge augmentation). It also can be performed in the sinus cavity to create vertical space for implants (often called sinus lift, sinus augmentation, or sinus grafting).

Bone graft material can come from many sources. We specialize in using non-autogenous bone, meaning not sourced from yourself, in order to minimize the surgical morbidity seen with harvesting your own bone, usually from an additional secondary surgical site. We typically use allograft, donated bone from human cadaver and/or xenograft, bovine bone particulate from cows. Your safety and comfort is a priority for us. The allograft we use is sourced from LifeNet Health, the worldwide leader in tissue implants, to ensure the highest quality of processing and sterility. The bone graft we purchase is crushed and comes in small pieces, only 0.25-1 mm in size, and is sterilized of all active cells and only acts as a scaffold or placeholder to tell your body to send bone cells to the area. The bone graft we place is dissolved and resorbed by your body – by 3 months more than 80% of the graft is dissolved away and replaced with your own natural bone.