What generally occurs to the surrounding bone and gum tissue following tooth extraction?
Tooth extraction is one of the most common dental procedures. Healing of the resulting extraction socket normally occurs uneventfully. However, even with completely normal healing, there is often some resorption or melting away of the surrounding bone, resulting in less height and width than were present prior to tooth extraction. Why is preserving bone and surrounding gum tissue important? Loss of bone and gum tissue following tooth extraction often results in both functional and cosmetic defects. Such tissue loss often results in an unsightly collapsed appearance, especially in the front of the mouth where proper maintenance of tissue health is critical to normal aesthetics. How can bone and gum tissue be preserved following tooth extraction? Today, because of advances in dental surgical procedures and bioengineering, bone and gum tissue loss following tooth removal can either be greatly reduced or or completely eliminated. Following removal of the tooth a specially bioengineered gra
