Preliminary Oral Surgery - Bozeman, MT
Restore the Look, Feel, and Function of Your Natural Teeth
Elevate Your Smile Function and Beauty with Dental Implants
If you’re struggling with tooth loss and considering getting dental implants, pre-prosthetic oral surgery in Bozeman, MT may be necessary before implant placement. Healthy gums and adequate bone volume/density are required for long-term restorative crown, bridge, or full-mouth prosthesis stability.
Oral surgery aims to establish a healthy foundation, a crucial first step to ensure dental implants fully integrate with your underlying bone without complications. Tooth extraction and bone augmentation are standard oral procedures performed before implant surgery. Sometimes, we can extract teeth and perform bone grafting on the same day as surgery.
Experience Safe and Comfortable Oral Surgery at Gallatin Valley Surgical Arts
Our board-certified oral surgeon, Dr. Brenda Hall, is an expert in maxillofacial surgery, with extensive skills in performing procedures designed to improve oral function, treat disease, relieve pain, and alleviate facial deformities. Dr. Hall is also a medical doctor with an impressive track record helping people with complex medical conditions qualify for dental implants.
As a board-certified oral surgeon, she is also trained and certified to administer soothing sedation, which can make the surgical process less stressful, especially if you’re getting full-mouth dental implants. If you’re looking for oral surgery near you in Bozeman, MT, you’ve found the right practice to make your smile whole again!
Set a Stable Foundation for Successful Dental Implant Surgery
Tooth Extractions
While any dentist can perform tooth extractions, Dr. Hall combines advanced technology, sedation options, and a gentle touch to ensure your procedure is as comfortable and quick as possible. After tooth extraction, ongoing bone resorption can lead to functional and aesthetic deficits.
However, bone grafting may not be required if an implant is placed soon after the tooth extraction site has healed. If you have failing teeth that require gentle and affordable tooth extractions, your smile is in skillful and compassionate hands at Gallatin Valley Surgical Arts!
Bone Grafting
When you have missing teeth, the absence of tooth roots results in a lack of stimulation to your underlying jawbone, causing it to progressively resorb or deteriorate. About 25% of your surrounding bone is lost within the first year after tooth loss, and it wears away over time.
As such, most people with missing teeth require bone grafting, a minimally invasive oral surgery procedure to build up lost bone. The donor graft material is placed in the empty socket area and allowed to fuse with your underlying bone over a few weeks to months.
Ridge Augmentation
The alveolar ridge of the jaw is the bone surrounding your teeth’ roots. When a tooth is removed, an empty socket is left in the alveolar ridge bone. The empty socket often heals independently, filling in with bone and tissue. But when dental implants aren’t placed soon after tooth extraction in Bozeman, MT, deterioration of the previous height and width of the socket can result in unsightly indentations in your gum line.
Ridge augmentation is a bone grafting technique that restores form and function to the alveolar ridge. In instances where the bone loss is mild to moderate, ridge augmentation can often be performed at the same time as dental implant placement.
Dental Implant Surgery
Dental implants are screw-like titanium posts surgically placed in your jawbone that act as tooth root substitutes. Your bone bonds with the titanium over three to six months, creating a strong foundation for a restorative crown, bridge, or full-mouth prosthesis.
Implants help prevent bone deterioration when teeth are missing by stimulating new growth while restoring nearly 100% of oral function. As such, dental implants are one of the most groundbreaking types of oral surgery introduced in the last century, with ongoing refinements and protocols streamlining the process and outcomes!
Bring Out Your Best Smile for Life with Implants!
Get started by scheduling an oral surgery consultation.
