Abstract :
Oral surgical procedures are one of the common procedures occurring in daily routine practice. These oral surgical procedures can be minor oral surgical procedures or major oral surgical procedures. Minor oral surgical procedures include extraction of mobile tooth, grossly carious tooth, only root stumps present, alveoloplasty, etc. and major oral surgical procedures include impactions, fracture reductions, single or multiple placements of implants, etc.These procedures might result in the formation of bone defect, while doing the oral surgical procedures. These bone defects need to be restored in to the normal anatomy, so that the normal functioning could not get hampered. Bone grafting is also one of the surgical procedure which is done for the replacement of the missing bone. These defects might occur from any general disease, accident, congenital abnormality. There are different methods which can be used to eliminate different defects and it includes guided bone regeneration therapy, Bone graft helps in maintain the normal anatomic architecture of the bone, it helps in restoring the function of the bone, helps in restoring the esthetics of the bone, helps in eliminating the space and also creating the space, so that the implant can be placed.
Keyword :
Bone graft materials, Autograft, Allograft, Implants, Oral surgical procedures