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DR. JIMMY KILIMITZOGLOU: When we’re missing teeth for a long period of time what happens
is the bone kind of melts away or resorbs and we don’t have enough bone to support
an implant. In that case, we have to do some bone grafting and bone grafting essentially
is adding some calcium mineral that allows our own blood to go into that area and it
makes bone, your own bone. The analogy that I like to use is we have some undifferentiated
cells in our blood stream; cells that don’t know what they want to be when they grow up.
And we actually setup a bone training center and these immature cells they train to become
bone cells and they create more bone. And then a few months later, we can actually go
ahead and place an implant.