Oral and maxilofacial surgery

During the procedure patients need some kind of anesthesia, and the healing period is usually longer. These types of surgeries attend to correct cosmetic problems and other damages. Most common oral surgery treatments are the wisdom tooth extraction, bone grafting and sinus lift procedures.

Types of oral surgeries

• dental implant placement

• Sinus lift 

• bone block
  
  

  Types of bone blocks  

• Artificial bone block
  Bone graft is an oral surgical procedure when we substitute your own bone with synthetic replacement materials (mainly with hydroxyapatite). These materials have many of the same bone forming properties as human bone and absolutely safe alternatives. 
  The procedure is the same as with the bone replacement of the chin except our specialists use only synthetic blocks to fill the areas of bone loss. Please note, this type of procedure usually has lower success rate then the one using bone from the patient's body.
  
  

• Bone graft from hip
  Generally considered the best material for dental bone grafts, autogenous bone is the process whereby bone taken from adjacent sites of the patient such as the chin. Autogenous bone is the standard as often it has the most predictable results. It is considered the best type of dental bone grafting technique because the bone is live bone. 
  There are cases when implantologists use another part of the jaw for grafting (such as chin or back portions of the jaw, see above) but when there is not enough bone available, they have to turn to other parts of the body such as the hip bone (as the hip bone contains enough marrow, soft tissue within the bone). The autograft is a procedure where the specialist collects bone from the pelvis above the hip joint. A cut is made (usually a couple of inches long) and the required amount of bone is taken out. According to the amount of bone needed a small plastic tube may be placed into the wound before stitched. After the operation you are likely to feel some pain for at least a few days even if only a small amount of bone has been collected. In the case of a larger amount of bone collecting the area might hurt for even a couple of weeks. Dressing is put over the wound after surgery, this should be worn until the stitches have been removed. You should expect to stay in hospital for a couple of days but it depends on the treatment type involved at the same time.

• Bone block from the chin
  Generally considered the best material for dental bone grafts, autogenous bone is the process whereby bone taken from adjacent sites of the patient such as the chin. Autogenous bone is the standard as often it has the most predictable results. It is considered the best type of dental bone grafting technique because the bone is live bone. 

  Read more about dental bone grafting here and sinus lifting here.

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