Dental Implants: Is Bone Grafting Necessary?

Your eligibility for Dental Implants will largely depend on one particular major factor. This major factor is the amount of remaining bone left apart of your jaw. The dental implant won't properly integrate into the jaw bone because of the lack of bone mass. The outcome of this is usually a rejected dental implant and would be classified as a treatment failure. When this happens, people are left without the opportunity to replace their teeth by means of implants and those in old age are more-so in trouble as they will continue to see the deterioration of their facial structure. 
The good news is that dental professionals have made leaps and bounds towards making dental implant treatments available for everyone out there by offer bone grafting to add bone to the area.  Bone grafts are giving people everywhere the ability to have dental implant surgery with success. 
Adding Bone for Dental Implants 101
Bone grafting is certainly nothing to fear because the actual operation is very simple. It's up to the dentist or other dental professional to assess the amount of available bone and from that point determine whether or not a bone graft will be suitable. When the dentist has checked your mouth, they should continue on by giving you options as to what type of bone donor you will be using as well as providing advantages and disadvantages to each.
After all the pre-planning has been done, surgery will commence and your dentist will expose the underlying bone by making an incision in your gums. With the area open, the bone from the donor will be added. Now the bone will be added to the surgical area then is covered with a natural membrane for protection. A protective coating is incorporated in order to fight against the possibility of infection, sometimes along with medicine. When all this has been completed, the surgical area will be patched up and stitched back to it's almost-original condition but with new bone and a membrane in place. In about two to four months you're going to be on your way to a full recovery where the bone that was grafted is now a part of your own jaw. Recovery time will be different from person to person but it will take around 4 months for the bone to be fully integrated. Antibiotics are also given as another safety measure following surgery.
A step that dentists take to measure your new bone growth and see if the bone graft was successful is by taking x-rays. The x-ray that will be taken is used by your dentist to make a new plan as to where they will place the dental implant and to see if it really is possible to place a dental implant even after adding more bone via bone graft. Your dentist, at this point, will commence the official dental implant portion of surgery after taking a look at the x-rays.
Bone Grafting Treatment Types
The following are the different types of bone grafting donor options.
Autografts
Xenografts
Allografts
Alloplastic grafts
Bone Graft
The pricing of bone grafts are also an indistinct number due to the fact that they are included in the dental implant price.  However, the exact cost of the bone graft as included in the final implant cost I can't quite narrow down. It varies depending on the dental practice and the extremes of surgery.
Let me know if you have any questions or if you have questions about bone grafting for dental implants.