Rochester, NY (PRWEB) October 18, 2005

Elmwood Dental Restoration and Implant Center now offers advanced bone grafting technology that enables much more men and women to experience the comfort and confidence of dental implants. Patients who in the past did not qualify for dental implants due to poor bone quality or who chose not to undergo a complex bone grafting process can now obtain lengthy lasting, natural looking implants.

Dental implants are the finest achievable replacements for missing teeth simply because they look, really feel and function far more like natural teeth than alternative treatments. Implants also last a lot longer than bridgework, partials and dentures, without compromising healthy surrounding teeth.

To guarantee dental implant success, the patient need to have sufficient jawbone to anchor the titanium implant. In patients who do not have enough bone or whose bone is of poor quality, grafting can stimulate bone growth. Bone grafting used to require surgery to harvest graftable bone from the patient’s chin or an additional component of the body. This extra surgery caused discomfort and increased the risk for infection, and several patients were reluctant to undergo the process.

Recent innovations have made bone grafting a lot far more patient-friendly. Freeze-dried grafting material is now utilized in dental bone grafting procedures. A second surgical procedure is eliminated and post-surgical discomfort is significantly reduced. As a result, bone grafting has grow to be a routine dental procedure at Elmwood Dental Restoration and Implant Center.

New bone begins to form in just a couple of weeks after grafting surgery, and implant placement can normally be scheduled within 3 to six months.

This patient-friendly bone grafting technology will benefit thousands of patients who have lost bone as a result of a tooth extraction, gum disease, gum infection, accident or other facial trauma.

For far more details on bone grafting and dental implants, visit the Elmwood Dental Restoration and Implant Center web site at www.elmwooddentalimplants.com or call Karon Johnson at (585) 461-4350.

Elmwood Dental Restoration and Implant Center is a state-of-the-art facility where a team of dental specialists solves complex dental problems utilizing the newest technologies in restorative and implant dentistry. The Center is located at 1960 Clinton Avenue South in Rochester, NY.

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