When one or both jawbones are too weak to accommodate implants safely, bone grafting is used to strengthen them. This is usually the result of periodontal disease, missing teeth, surgery, or trauma. Our expert removes a small piece of bone from another place of your body to transplant to the jawbone to encourage regeneration. (Synthetic bone or a sample from a bone bank can alternatively be used.) Over the course of a few months, the bones fuse, providing enough strength to safely position implants with a wonderful long-term outlook. In rare circumstances, we may be able to do the bone graft while also placing implants.