Bone Grafting in London
"Not enough bone" often starts the moment a tooth comes out. Socket preservation grafts the site immediately, protecting your future implant option before any bone is lost.
Placed the same visit as your extraction
Protects the bone a future implant will need
Your own healing does the building, the graft is just the scaffold
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Every treatment plan is built from your own 3D scan and reviewed personally by Dr Patel.
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The treatment · explained by Dr Patel
What is bone grafting?
Jawbone exists to hold teeth. Lose the tooth, and the bone beneath begins to shrink within months, often before you'd even know a problem was starting.
Socket preservation stops that clock at the moment of extraction. Grafting material is placed directly into the empty socket, acting as a scaffold that your own bone grows through and replaces over three to six months. What remains is your bone, in the shape a future implant needs.
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Your journey
Bone Grafting, step by step
Rebuild first, implant second, sometimes both at once.
The common scenarios
When socket preservation makes sense
The smartest graft is the preventive one: filling the socket the day a tooth comes out keeps the bone that would otherwise vanish.
At extraction
Immediate protection
The smartest graft is the preventive one: filling the socket the day a tooth comes out keeps the bone that would otherwise vanish.
Not ready yet
Keeping options open
Not ready to commit to an implant straight away? Socket preservation keeps the site viable so that decision can wait.
After disease
Post-periodontitis
Gum disease erodes bone silently. Grafting the socket at extraction protects the site so an implant can still anchor there later.
Denture wearers
Future-proofing
Planning to move from a denture to an implant one day? Protecting the socket now keeps that door open.
Cost & finance
Bone grafting cost & monthly options
Your plan is quoted as one fixed figure, agreed in writing before treatment starts. What moves the price:
- Socket preservation: from £480, graft placed at extraction to protect the future implant site.
Consultation, CBCT 3D scan and aftercare reviews are always included. Nothing is added mid-treatment.
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Life with your new teeth
Aftercare, risks and your guarantee
Aftercare for your graft
- Cold compress and rest on day one
- Soft foods and no chewing on the site for two weeks
- No smoking, the single biggest healing factor
- Gentle salt-water rinses from day two; avoid disturbing the site
What can compromise a graft?
- Smoking, it starves the healing site of blood supply
- Infection left unreported (call us early, it's fixable)
- Mechanical disturbance: prodding, hard chewing, dentures pressing
- Uncontrolled diabetes during healing
Graft success rates run above 90%, and the risk factors above are the entire list worth knowing.
Your assurance
- Healing verified by scan before any implant proceeds
- If a graft under-delivers, the revision plan is agreed upfront
- Review appointments through healing included
- Written plan covers the full implant journey, not just the graft
Grafting is a means to an end, your plan is priced and mapped through to the final tooth.
Common questions
Bone Grafting FAQs
Most grafts use sterile, processed bone mineral, bovine-derived or synthetic, chosen for decades of safety data. Your own bone can be used in specific cases. All options, including fully synthetic, are discussed openly at consultation.
Yes, that's the mechanism. The material is a scaffold your own bone cells grow through, dissolve and replace over months. The follow-up scan shows your bone, not the graft.
The socket can lose a significant amount of width and height within months, sometimes enough to rule out a straightforward implant later and require a larger rebuild. Grafting at the time of extraction is the simplest way to avoid that.
Usually yes, after adjustment, the denture is relieved over the site so it can't press on the healing bone. Bring it to the graft appointment and we handle it there.
You won't have to guess: a verification scan before implant placement measures the new bone directly. Implants only proceed into confirmed, adequate bone, that checkpoint is built into every plan.
Sometimes, smaller sockets with enough surrounding native bone can take an implant immediately, with grafting used just to fill any gap around it. The scan decides; one surgery is always the preference where biology allows.
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