Tag: bone graft

People who have healthy bones undergo a process known as remodeling. This process removes old portions of the bone and replaces them with fresh and new bones. If you have Paget’s disease, it will cause the remodeling process to lose balance and produce new bones that are brittle, weak, and abnormally shaped. This bone condition usually affects adults over the…
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Chances are you have heard of dental implants, but bone grafting is a lot less common of a dental phrase. Bone grafting and dental implants typically go hand-in-hand. This blog will give you an idea of just what bone grafting is and how it is performed by an oral surgeon in Pembroke Pines. What is Bone Grafting? When you get…
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If you are missing one or more teeth, you can’t go wrong with dental implants. However, some people can’t get implants due to the jaw bone being too thin or soft to keep the implant in place. If that’s the case, an option is a bone graft. Let’s talk about what exactly bone grafting is and how it pertains to…
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When you suffer from a missing tooth, either from trauma, tooth decay, gum disease or any other reason, you soon come to the realization just how important your teeth are. The different functionalities that some do not even think about become an issue for you. Some experience trouble speaking or pronouncing different words because of missing teeth. Some feel self-conscious…
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The keratocystic odontogenic tumor (KOT) is a benign odontogenic tumor that was formally known as an odontogenic keratocyst (OKC). The change in the name was done to differentiate this lesion from the more common keratinizing odontogenic cyst and to denote its more aggressive biologic nature. These tumors can be a small solitary radiolucency or a large multilocular radiolucency. These tumors…
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