Oral Health and Dental Management

Extraction socket grafting- A standard of care

4^th Asia Pacific Congress & Expo on Dental and Oral Health

July 27-29, 2015 Brisbane, Australia

Eugene Marais

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

This presentation discusses the need for socket preservation in current regular dentistry. As professionals, it is our duty to give patients treatment options when the unfortunate prospect of an extraction looms. With the advance of bone grafting techniques and materials it has made procedures easier to perform and much more predictable. The outcome is that regular general dental practitioners who should be able to extract a tooth, should therefore be able to perform a socket graft, which in turn will offer an ideal alveolar crest, which gives the patient the benefit of being able to make an informed consent when deciding on treating the gap caused by the missing tooth. My goal is to create awareness for this fairly minor procedure in the hope that dentists will be able to add this procedure to their portfolios.