Proven, safe and often necessary: Rebuilding of Bone

Jawbone tissue that is no longer needed for holding of teeth is dismantled by the body. Therefore, tooth loss leads to bone loss. The rate of loss varies from patient to patient.

In 90% of patients, remaining bone tissue does not offer a sufficiently firm foundation for setting of implants. Therefore, it is necessary for the implant specialist to rebuild bone tissue before setting of implants can begin.

If bone loss is not advanced, implants can still be set. In cases of advanced bone loss, rebuilding treatments are necessary so that implants can be set into newly built-up bone tissue.

Rebuilding bone is a relatively harmless treatment for the patient, and is nothing to be afraid of. If you are considering tooth implants, don’t be discouraged when you are told that bone tissue needs to be rebuilt.

Sinus Lift

A so-called sinus lift is used to rebuild bone tissue on both sides of the upper jaw. In this process the maxillary sinus is “lifted” through a mix of your own bone and bone replacement material, as shown in these graphics (link):

Use of Your Bone Tissue

Your own bone is best for rebuilding jawbone tissue. For this purpose, bone shavings from drilling for your implants are filtered out and used. If more of your own bone is needed, it can be removed from your chin, for instance. Bone replacement material can be used to augment your own bone tissue.

Bone Replacement Material

The Dentaprime Dental Clinic uses primarily bone replacement material of the Bio-Oss (link) brand. Your own bone-building cells, the so-called osteoblasts, settle into the matrix of the replacement material and form new bone. The porous structure of Bio-Oss is similar to that of human bone tissue. The material has been in use among dental surgeons for more than 20 years, has been tested in more than 100 clinical studies, and has proven itself.


Left: Bio-Oss matrix Center: Osteoblasts and blood vessels are populating the matrix
Right: Integration with newly built bone (6-9 months)

If applicable, the filled-in space is encapsulated with a membrane so that the bone can rebuild itself undisturbed. This membrane completely disintegrates in the body.

Within six to nine months the bone is rebuilt. A foundation for implants has been created so that the implant specialist can set the implants after healing has occurred. In cases where only a small amount of rebuilding is needed, the rebuilding treatment and implantation can occur simultaneously. There is sufficient stability as long there is more than 2/3 of natural bone left.

Rebuilding bone belongs to the most exacting techniques among dental surgery procedures and places high demands on dental professionals. Experience is essential.

Moon River, wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style

This is my last blog for Dentaprime.

When the overestimated sun takes the place of the gorgeous, underestimated moon,
I will take on a new challenge.

For quite some time now, I have a still largely unwritten book on the shelf, which lies on top of some excellent ideas about professional (blog-)writing. Also, I enjoy taking photos like the above.
Therefore, as of tomorrow, I will give self-employment (combined with a new part-time job) a try.

Remember:

Avoid alliteration. Always.

Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

One should never generalize.

Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

Be more or less specific.

Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

One-word sentences? Eliminate.

The passive voice is to be avoided.

Who needs rhetorical questions?

Take care and let Dentaprime take care of your teeth!

The lion sleeps tonight

There is something about this lion's eyes.


The first time I looked at them, I saw sadness.
The second time, thoughtfulness.
Then wisdom.
At last weariness.

The lion sleeps too tight?

The lion does not sleep at all?

If your teeth give you sleepless nights, give us a call and we will guide you through the dental jungle.

I wanna break free

Freddy Mercury's huge overbite is world-famous. Mercury did not want any dental work done, because he was afraid it would affect his voice.

The overbite was caused by 4 extra teeth that pushed their way to what they thought was second best to freedom: the front of the line.


Such an overbite (but also a smaller one) can cause serious dental problems and soon turn a Bohemian Rhapsody into a Rhapsody in Blue.

When you look in the mirror with closed teeth and see less than half of your lower teeth....
When you look from the side and see your teeth stick out more than normal....
You have an overbite.

You will wear fixed braces, followed by a retainer and after perhaps 5 years, the teeth can participate in a line dance again.

We do not place mercury but we do place veneers, which will be the cherries on the long-baked cake....

Bubbling Almelo (last time, a truck had lost its load of washing powder)

This week, I will spend a long weekend in the Eastern part of The Netherlands. I will probably visit Enschede (do not try to pronounce it; your throat may not survive the brave attempt.)

On 13th May 2000, the SE Fireworks depot in Enschede exploded. 22 People were killed (amongst whom 4 firemen) and 947 were injured. This is what the houses looked like, some time after the explosion.

This part of my country is highly underestimated. Hey, if I did not have two best friends and 7 wonderful cats living in Almelo, I would never even come close...

These people have

a strange accent

at least one wishy-washy soccer team (have to be careful: friends read this blog)

a ridiculous pop band called Normal

a brewery not called Heineken but Grolsch

an industrial zone called Furious Filthy (Dollegoor)

a comedian named Herman (after the first transgenic bull in the world)

etc. etc. etc.

And now -for 3 days only- they have me.

Look, Potter! You've got yourself a girlfriend. (Draco Malfoy)

I am a huge Potter fan, but The Halfblood Prince left me disappointed and annoyed.


Disappointed, because Potter's 6th was more like a highschool story: Harry, Hermione and Ron falling in and out of love.

Annoyed, because ever since I was born, I hate open endings.

The open endings of horror movies keep people coming back for more.
Did you watch Friday the 13th, part 12?
Nightmare on Elm Street, part 8?
Halloween, part 9?
Or did you get a good laugh with Scary Movie, part 4?

At the end of the Greek tragedy Antigone, the protagonist's sister Ismene simply disappears after saying goodbye to daddy Oedipussy and burying her brother Polynices.

Unfinished work from composers never leads to complete satisfaction. I always have the feeling that the best is yet to come. What to think of John and Yoko's 'Two Virgins'?

Dental treatment is one of the things that should not have an open ending. There has to be a clear treatment plan, a more or less reliable cost estimate (medical treatment always involves certain risks), and reasons why someting is (not) done.

Worrying about Harry's dental health (in none of the books or films he has a consultation), I look forward to HP7.

In Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, when Harry finally meets Voldemort, the lad turns out to be a dentist....

On the edge of a nervous breakdown

These are houses. Real houses, not Lego-built.

Let's try to find another picture.....

Slightly better but it still makes me feel nauseous...

My sign is Cancer and that means I am very, very conservative. I prefer sticking with the old to trying something new. I always go to the same restaurants, ordering the same meal for years. If there is a new owner or the menu changes radically, I'm gone.

The architect of these houses may be a very nice, competent man, but his design gives me the creeps. Living in a square house would make me very insecure.

In something called ' hyperbolic geometry', squares with right angles do not exist.
Where would I put my huge flatscreen tv? Where my Kingsize bed for Queens?

In 'spherical geometry', a square is a polygon whose edges are great circle arcs....
See.... again a square with round edges!

In 'Euclidean geometry', finally, a square is a regular quadrilateral.
I cannot pronounce the second word, but the first sounds good to me: regular.

Thank God for Dentaprime's waiting room, where the edges are.... uhm..... round?