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Hello,In bone grafting, a piece of bone is removed from another part of your jaw or your body — your hip, for example — and transplanted to your jawbone. Another option is to use artificial bone (bone commercially available) to place in these areas. It may take several months for the transplanted bone to grow enough new bone to support a dental implant.In some cases, you may need only minor bone grafting, which can be done at the same time as the implant surgery. The condition of your jawbone determines how you proceed.
Bone grafting is a surgical procedure that replaces missing bone with material from patient′s own body, an artificial, synthetic, or natural substitute. Bone grafting is possible because bone tissue has the ability to regenerate completely if provided the space into which it has to grow. As natural bone grows, it generally replaces the graft material completely, resulting in a fully integrated region of new bone.
It's not that the bone graft can cause the teeth to move, but the missing tooth can cause shifting of the adjacent teeth as well as movement of the opposing tooth into the new space.
As long as there are no signs of infection, this could be just an exposed membrane barrier that was used to contain the bone graft or it could be actual bone particles that are above the healing vascularized area of bone. Please check with your surgeon to confirm.
Studies show that bone will resorb more if the site is not grafted after an extraction than if it is. This tends to be more important in the anterior region of the mouth, as the pattern of resorption is more significant for the front teeth. As a general rule of thumb, it is important to bone...