Is my jaw bone dead after bone graft in the upper jaw?

It is normal to lose some of the bone particles throughout the first 2 weeks of healing. If your sutures are still in place, odds are the graft is still in place. If the graft had come out, you would be experiencing dry socket symptoms which would include a lot of pain. Posting a picture would...

There isn't anything that you are doing wrong. Bone grafting can be a delicate process and being a newer area of dentistry, how to place the graft and how to handle complications is continually evolving. Also it takes a while for newer information to filter down to the doctors providing the...

The white particles are almost certainly the bone graft material. As for healing you won't really know how well it healed until the implant is placed. If it didn't heal correctly, the graft will not have been replaced by your own real bone and instead the surgeon will find white sand and have to...