Board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon New Jersey-based Dr. AnupMuduli offers surgical services at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Valley Hospital, and Chinton Memorial Hospital. Dr. Anup Muduli also regularly performs bone grafting in his private practice, Rampao Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Oral surgeons employ bone grafting to increase the surface area available for an implant treatment or to inhibit bone recession after surgery or disease. The procedure may involve the implantation of the patient's own natural bone or that of a donor, although surgeons may also elect to use animal bone synthetic material. In many cases, the surgeon may be able to use bone from another part of the jaw itself. The patient's own bone tends to produce the most effective results.

Bone grafting may make significant

changes to the shape and size of the jaw,

or it may simply implant enough bone to

hold an implant in place. A surgeon may

perform less intensive grafting procedures

as part of an implant surgery itself, although

larger-scale grafts require a separate

procedure. Both procedures are day

surgeries and typically require only local

anesthetic.