Dental implant and bone graft?

I went for my dental implant consult today. I will need the longer procedure because of 70% bone loss in that area, It was a root canal then Apico then infection. Any way I was told to have the tooth removed, I would need bone graft, the way it was described it sounded like "bone in a bottle" where the perio buys it from "reputible sources" when I questioned about disease. It would be put there and then wait for it to grow and then I would hopefully be finished in a year, since it needs to regenerate etc. Anyone been through this, was it painful, was there swelling, I know with the Apico I could not go to work for a week because my face was twice it's normal size. It is not an emergency this minute since the infection has cleared for the time being but there is the bone loss and I guess waiting too long would just make more bone disappear. Any feed back would be greatly appreciated!

Dental implant and bone graft?
I can only comment on you bone graft statement. You stated that they said they will wait for "it" to grow. You may have misunderstood them. When implanting an allograft (donated bone from an outside source), that bone is dead and has no live tissue in it. The goal of this is for YOUR bone to grow INTO the allograft, and yes, this takes some time.





I work in surgery doing a lot of spinal fusions in which we use allograft bone. This works the same with ANY allograft bone. It fills the void and the hope is that your body will grow into and around it.





Just wanted to clarify this for you.
Reply:Thank you "research" I-as asker- picked you as best answer. It is all so new to me so my head was spinning,I will have to look up the "allograft", you gave me some good info. Thanks again!! Report It

Reply:my aunt had her bottom teeth done. - not to scare you or anything, but she said it was so painful that she never went back to get the top row done. - i'm sorry. - good luck. i know it's a painful and expensive process.