Internal Resorption

These pictures taken in my Tampa Bay area dentist office show an extreme example of a relatively uncommon situation known as Internal Tooth Resorption.

This tooth #27 was extracted in my Palm Harbor dentist office in September 2012.  The patient had otherwise healthy teeth therefore the replacement of choice here, is a dental implant and crown.  At the time of extraction, site presevation bone grafting was done.

Marti, a dental assistant in my Tampa dentist office took the initiative to really clean up the bloody extracted tooth.  The cleaned up tooth picture really shows how severe the tooth was diseased.

Dental Bone Graft Material

There are multiple types of bone graft material.  The source of this dental implant bone graft can range from autogenous (the persons own bone) to synthetic (coral or even plaster of paris.)

Dental bone grafting is not new.  In recent times, Dr Leonard Linkow, in New York City, was using a plaster of paris like material in the 1960′s while Dr O’Hilt Tatum Jr was using the persons own bone harvested from their hip.  In the 21st century, materials for dental bone grafting has really changed.  For my Palm Harbor dentist office patients, I can buy sterile plaster of paris, I can harvest bone from some ones jaw.  Best of all though, for my Palm Harbor dentist patients, I can purchase stem cell impregnated osteoinductive bone.  This type of dental bone graft material has provided my Palm Harbor dentist office patients the best and most predicable results.

Dentistry in a Tampa Bay area dentist office is fabuluous.  I love living in Oldsmar and being a Palm Harbor dentist.

Site preservation bone graft being protected by a membrane

Palm Harbor dentist patients come to see me for disease control, health, comfort and cosmetics.  They do not come to me specifically for bone grafting and dental implants.  These dental procedures commonly performed in Tampa dentist offices are just a part of the overall path to getting comfortable teeth.

A Clearwater dentist referred this woman to my Palm Harbor dentist office when her 3 tooth fixed bridge failed, one of the tooth supports decayed, rotted and broke off.  Instead of the more traditional dental approach – extending the bridge to a 4 or 5 tooth bridge, after extensive research and discussion with her Clearwater dentist, this patient came to my Palm Harbor dentist office for an alternative to tooth supported fixed bridgework.