Please Read This Before Paying for Implant Bone Grafting Costs

Implant bone grafting costs

Please read this before paying for them

| * Before-and-after case of bone-graft implants* (left) 23. 12. 25 / (right) 24. 06. 28 |

Hello.

For 18 years,

staying in one place

and accumulating 5,000 clinical cases,

I am O Su-hwan,

representative director of Smile D Dental Clinic and a smiling doctor.

At our clinic, three specialists work together,

with ‘trust,’ ‘relationship,’ and ‘communication’

as our top priorities with patients.

Because we provide treatment that also considers patients’ overall health and quality of life,

we have achieved a Naver rating of 4.82.

To repay our patients for their strong support and love,

we are providing intensive treatment in October for only 30 patients.

‘I’m planning to get an implant,

but they say I need bone grafting.

Then won’t the implant bone grafting cost

increase further?

Do I really have to do it?’

If you are reading this now, I think you may relate to the concern above.

This is also a type of question that frequently comes to our clinic in everyday practice.

People visit us to get a second opinion after being told elsewhere that bone grafting is necessary.

That’s because implant bone grafting costs and the additional time involved can understandably feel burdensome.

In fact, getting a cross-check like this is a very wise decision.

From a layperson’s perspective, it is difficult to know whether bone grafting is truly necessary.

It is not impossible for someone who does not actually need bone grafting to receive indiscriminate recommendations for it.

Accordingly, as a board-certified orthodontic specialist with 18 years of experience recognized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, I will discuss the following two topics in the rest of this article.

1. Implant bone grafting costs and concept
2. Criteria for deciding whether bone grafting is needed

Please read slowly and carefully, and take away the information you need. ^^

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Implant bone grafting costs,

Why is bone grafting performed?

Based on the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service,

The appropriate price for an implant in Seoul is set at about 1.0 to 1.2 million won per implant.

If bone grafting is performed, additional costs arise.

This is because various factors are involved, such as the type of material used, its stability, and the difficulty of the procedure.

The higher the difficulty of the bone grafting, and the more the material is an imported product whose stability has been proven through long-term use, the higher the cost may be.

So why is this bone grafting done in the first place?

An implant is a treatment in which an artificial root is placed into the jawbone and fixed in place.

Bone grafting is the procedure that supplements the insufficient bone.

Many people think of bone as a hard rock-like mass, but in reality it can be hard or soft,

and it is a porous tissue with many tiny holes that is constantly undergoing remodeling.

In other words, bone grafting increases bone tissue and creates an environment in which bone cells can work.

Representative implant graft materials include the following.

Autogenous bone	Bone harvested from my own body
Xenograft	Derived from cattle, horses, pigs, etc.
Allograft	Material processed from human tissue

Implant bone grafting costs,

What factors determine whether bone grafting is needed?

Then in what cases should implant bone grafting costs be paid?

What you should know is this:

Simply having insufficient bone does not automatically mean grafting will be necessary.

Shall we look at a real case?

Our clinic consults as needed with the director, a specialist in integrated dentistry, and the director, a specialist in orthodontics,

to comprehensively consider factors such as

(1) how long the tooth has been missing

(2) the condition of the remaining alveolar bone

and decide whether bone grafting is necessary.

This patient had lost a tooth, and only about 2 to 3 mm of bone remained.

At the initial diagnosis, it seemed that bone grafting would be needed,

but the detailed examination showed that there was still usable bone remaining for the patient,

so the implant could be placed without bone grafting.

The patient was very satisfied to learn that bone grafting, which they had expected to need, was not necessary.

This means that if a doctor is experienced, rather than recommending grafting first just because the patient’s bone is somewhat insufficient,

they will first look for ways to make the best use of the patient’s natural resources.

Even if a patient has been missing teeth for a long time and the height of the gum bone has decreased,

short implants are now widely available, so we may suggest such alternatives as well.

So if you are reading this and have been told that bone grafting is needed,

I recommend visiting at least 2 to 3 clinics to get advice from different perspectives and find the method that is right for you.

Today I explained implant bone grafting.

Because bone grafting must be judged strategically,

based on the amount of bone remaining and the location of the chewing force,

I emphasize once again that doing a cross-check one more time can be a smart choice that saves both time and money.

I will wrap up while hoping that you can smile healthily and beautifully wherever you are, whenever you want. ^^

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Thank you for reading to the end.

This was O Su-hwan, representative director of Smile D Dental Clinic.

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