Bone & Tissue Grafting

When bone or soft tissue has been lost — through extraction, trauma, or disease — the consequences ripple across every aspect of your oral health. Bone loss makes implant placement difficult or impossible. Gum recession exposes roots, causes sensitivity, and compromises esthetics. Grafting procedures reverse this trajectory.

Bone Grafting

Socket Preservation

When a tooth is extracted, the surrounding bone begins to resorb almost immediately. Without intervention, up to 50% of bone volume can be lost within the first year — making future implant placement far more difficult or expensive. Socket preservation involves placing a bone graft material into the extraction site immediately after removal to maintain ridge width and height.

This is one of the highest-value investments you can make in your future dental care. It is a simple procedure performed at the time of extraction that dramatically simplifies implant surgery months later.

Ridge Augmentation

For patients who have already experienced bone loss, alveolar ridge augmentation rebuilds the missing volume needed to support an implant. Depending on the extent of deficiency, we use a variety of techniques:

• GBR (Guided Bone Regeneration) — bone graft material covered by a resorbable or non-resorbable membrane that excludes soft tissue and allows bone to regenerate
• Block grafts — where a segment of bone (from the patient or a processed donor source) is secured to the deficient site to build three-dimensional volume
• Biologics — growth factors and platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) that accelerate and enhance regeneration

Sinus Lift

The upper back teeth sit immediately below the maxillary sinuses. After tooth loss in this region, the sinus floor can drop, leaving insufficient bone height for implant placement. A sinus lift — or sinus augmentation — grafts bone material into the sinus floor, elevating it to create the vertical height needed for implants.

Soft Tissue Grafting

Connective Tissue Grafting

The most versatile soft tissue procedure we perform. A small amount of connective tissue is harvested from beneath the palate and used to:

• Cover exposed root surfaces and eliminate or reduce sensitivity
• Thicken thin, fragile gum tissue prone to recession
• Create a more natural, esthetic gum contour around teeth or implants

Free Gingival Grafting

Used to create a stable band of attached (keratinized) gum tissue in areas where it is thin or absent. Attached gingiva resists the mechanical forces of chewing and brushing — without it, recession tends to progress.

What to Expect

Most grafting procedures are outpatient procedures performed under local anesthesia, often with oral sedation available. Recovery varies depending on the extent of grafting — most patients return to normal activity within a week, with full healing of grafted bone occurring over several months. We provide detailed post-operative instructions and are available by phone if you have questions during your recovery.

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