Extraction of Lost Tooth and Socket Preservation
Socket preservation or alveolar ridge preservation is a procedure to reduce bone loss after tooth extraction. After tooth extraction, the jaw bone has a natural tendency to become narrow, and lose its original shape because the bone quickly reabsorbs, resulting in 30–60% loss in bone volume in the first six months.
This video demonstrates the surgery including the extraction, GBR procedure, use of collagen membrane and suturing to close.
Bone loss, can compromise the ability to place a dental implant (to replace the tooth), or its aesthetics and functional ability.
A 40 year old woman, complained about tooth pain for sometime while biting and chewing. On the clinical examination the patient presented pain in percussion on tooth 25, and vestibular sensitivity above tooth 25, pocket depth up to 12mm with Pus formation and bleeding on probing. The CT presented bone loss in the buccal area and a wide root canal treatment.
Diagnosis: Fractured tooth #25 .
This tooth can’t be saved and the treatment of choice is extraction and socket preservation with allograft material and collagen. Socket preservation attempts to prevent bone loss by bone grafting the socket immediately after extraction. With this procedure, the gum is retracted, the tooth is removed, bone substitute, allograft/autograph/xenograft is placed in the tooth socket, it is covered with a barrier membrane, and sutured to close the area.
Complete closure of the socket preservation assures better healing and greater bone augmentation.
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