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Onlay Grafts in Palm Springs, CA
Your teeth need a good foundation to keep on biting, chewing, crunching and munching. Thankfully, teeth are well anchored in your jawbone. As time goes on, however, that foundation can be compromised by gum disease and bone loss. If teeth are lost and left unreplaced, the remaining jawbone can even atrophy in a process called resorption. Resorption leaves large depressions in the jawbone, affecting your facial appearance, as well as our ability to install dental implants.
The Tahquitz Dental Group has helped many people replace compromised teeth with dental implants, but those implants need a real foundation, just like your natural teeth. When jawbone is missing, we offer onlay grafts to replace it.
Moving Bone from One Place to Another
Onlay grafts take the necessary amount of bone from another part of your body and then place it over the compromised area of the upper or lower jaw. Donor bone is commonly taken from your chin or another part of your jaw. Once in place, the added piece of bone gradually fuses with the jawbone, creating a solid foundation for implants or other dental procedures.
There are also other sources of donor bone for bone grafting. Sanitized bone can come from cadavers, animal sources, or even synthetic materials that are biocompatible. These options are especially helpful when the patient simply does not have a good donor site, or when they feel uncomfortable with transferring bone from one place to another.