Guides
Not Enough Bone
Being told there is not enough bone usually leads straight to grafting. But the layer that resorbs and the layer that does not are different things.
Not Enough Bone
- Jawbone Loss: What Causes It, and Can It Be Stopped?Jawbone loss progresses with tooth loss, dentures and gum disease. It is often confused with osteoporosis but is a separate process. Causes and how to stop it.
- Can You Have Implants Without a Bone Graft?When a bone graft is really needed and how long it makes you wait. The route with a graft and the route without, compared on time, visits and healing.
- Bone Graft Material: Where Does It Come From?The four sources of bone graft material: your own bone, human, animal and synthetic. When it is needed, how it is placed, known risks and graft-free routes.
- I Was Told I Don't Have Enough Bone: Can I Have Implants?The jawbone's two layers, which one resorbs after an extraction, and how a strategic implant anchors in the hard outer layer. A CBCT scan decides.
- Bone Graft from an Extracted Tooth: Does It Work?Your extracted tooth can be ground and placed in the socket as a graft. What the evidence says, how it is prepared, which teeth are unsuitable and its limits.
- Is a Sinus Lift Essential? When It Is Really NeededHow the sinus cavity at the back of the upper jaw affects implants, what open and closed sinus lifts are, when a sinus lift can be avoided and what decides it.
- Missing Teeth for Years: Can I Have Implants?What decides it is not the years passed but the bone left in your jaw. We explain what the CBCT scan shows and when implants are possible without a bone graft.