Socket preservation begins once a tooth is extracted, there will be an open “socket” where the tooth used to be. On the off chance that the socket is not kept empowered, the bone that used to support the tooth begins to resorb and turns out to be thin and shallow. This can bring about an issue when replacing the tooth with a partial denture, bridge or dental implant. Socket preservation is utilized primarily to minimize bone shrinkage, and to save the bone’s structure, allowing better result for a future denture, bridge or implant.
Once the tooth has been extricated, a bone grafting material is embedded inside the attachment. This bone joining material will in time solidify and turn out to be a piece of the jaw bone structure, guaranteeing procurement of adequate establishment for situation of future embeds, extensions and dentures.
After insertion of the bone grafting material, a collagen film is set on top to cover the joining material and grants mending of the gum tissue. This collagen layer is sutured into the socket. Preserving the tooth socket after having it removed has a few advantages:
- Keeps the bone from contracting thus keeping up flat facial bone structure.
- Denture replacement or reline is less likely to be required, as less bone and gum shrinkage.
- Lower gap creation under the pontic (a piece of bridge replacing a missing tooth) of a bridge.
- Better bone structure, resulting in an improved diagnosis when embedding a dental implant and less need for future bone grafting.