Bone Grafting for Dental Implants in Fraserburgh
Building a solid foundation for lasting implants.
Bone Grafting for Dental Implants
Planning to replace missing teeth with dental implants, but advised to get bone grafting first? Don’t worry — this is a common and important step for many patients. Bone grafting for dental implants at Fraserburgh Dental Care strengthens areas where the jawbone has weakened, ensuring a stable implant base. This improves the success and longevity of your new teeth, helping them look, feel, and function like natural ones. Find out how this simple procedure supports long-term implant results.
Your Treatment Explained
The jawbone can shrink or weaken when teeth are missing for a long time. Dental implant bone augmentation, also known as bone grafting, restores lost bone by placing graft material into the jaw, creating a strong, stable foundation for implants. This process ensures the implants stay secure and function properly. The grafting material may come from the patient’s own body (autograft), a donor source (allograft), or synthetic materials designed to safely rebuild bone structure.
The Right Candidate
Bone grafting may be recommended in these situations:
- Missing teeth for a long time: When teeth are lost and not replaced, the jawbone begins to shrink, reducing its ability to hold implants securely.
- Gum disease: Advanced gum infections can destroy bone tissue, making grafting essential before implant placement.
- Jaw injury or trauma: Accidents involving the jaw may weaken or damage the bone, needing grafting to restore its strength.
- Naturally thin jawbone: Some people naturally have low bone density or thin jawbones that require bone grafting to ensure dental implants are well supported.
Fraserburgh Dental Care welcomes patients from Fraserburgh and nearby areas, including Peterhead, Mintlaw, Banff, Strichen, Turriff, Ellon, Stuartfield, New Deer, Rosehearty, Inverallochy, and New Pitsligo.
Why Choose Bone Grafting?
Supports successful implant placement
For patients once unsuitable for implants due to bone loss, bone grafting allows implants to be placed securely and successfully.
Preserves jawbone strength
Grafting stops further bone loss, keeping the jaw strong, healthy, and maintaining natural facial shape for years to come.
Restores facial appearance and function
By rebuilding lost bone, grafting helps prevent the sunken look caused by missing teeth, maintaining natural facial contours and supporting normal chewing and speaking functions.
See the Results for Yourself
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Frequently Asked Questions
Take a look at the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about this treatment below:
How soon can I return to a normal diet after bone grafting?
A soft food diet is usually recommended for about a week after the procedure. After that, you can gradually resume your regular meals as comfort allows.
What activities or habits should I avoid after a bone graft?
Expect mild swelling or discomfort, manageable with common painkillers. To aid healing, avoid heavy exercise, intense gym sessions, running, contact sports, and stick to softer foods for the first few days.
Does bone grafting hurt?
Not at all. The procedure is carried out under local anaesthesia, ensuring the process remains pain-free and comfortable.
The Treatment Journey
Every patient’s journey is different, but here’s what to expect during treatment at Fraserburgh Dental Care.
Initial consultation
Using X-rays, 3D scans, and digital planning, we assess your jawbone, explain the bone grafting process, discuss costs, and book your procedure.
Bone grafting procedure
Carried out under local anaesthesia for comfort, modern techniques make grafting for missing teeth simple and stress-free.
Healing phase
After successful integration, the graft strengthens your jaw, preparing it to support dental implants and helping you move closer to a complete, confident smile.
1 Initial consultation
Using X-rays, 3D scans, and digital planning, we assess your jawbone, explain the bone grafting process, discuss costs, and book your procedure.
2 Bone grafting procedure
Carried out under local anaesthesia for comfort, modern techniques make grafting for missing teeth simple and stress-free.
3 Healing phase
After successful integration, the graft strengthens your jaw, preparing it to support dental implants and helping you move closer to a complete, confident smile.
Ready to explore bone grafting options with confidence?
Get in touch to discover more about comfortable bone grafting for dental implants at Fraserburgh Dental Care.
Other Treatments We Offer
Root Canal Treatment
While a simple filling can often resolve broken or decayed teeth, sometimes, when the problem has reached the pulp or nerve of the tooth, root canal treatment is necessary.
First, we will remove the damaged or infected nerve before cleansing and shaping the inner canal to prevent reinfection and then sealing fully. Once the endodontic treatment has been carried out a crown, usually gold or porcelain, may be used to cover a tooth that has a large opening after root canal therapy.
Dental Hygiene
Our experienced hygienists have a keen focus on providing first class dental hygiene to keep your teeth and gums healthy and gum disease free.
We believe that prevention is key and we will work with you to help formulate a customised oral hygiene plan to suit your mouth and lifestyle. We recommend that all of our patients attend regular hygiene appointments and dental checkups to keep their smiles healthy.
Teeth Whitening
Your smile is important. It’s one of the first things you notice when you meet someone. A whiter, brighter smile is beautiful – it can help you feel better about yourself and make a memorable impression.
Your lifestyle and the aging process can stain and darken your teeth. Many things we do on a regular basis can contribute to stained teeth, such as drinking coffee, tea, cola and red wine or smoking.
Dentures
Dentures are a removable option for replacing missing teeth. They can be particularly useful when there is extensive loss of bone support or when multiple teeth are missing. In addition to tooth replacement, dentures can also give support and structure to soft tissues of the cheek and lips, while restoring dental form and function. Our skilled dental technicians will construct the dentures in the laboratory based on our prescription.
