Membrane and titanium mesh: the two things that hold a graft still
Graft material is loose particles. Something has to keep it where it was put and keep gum tissue from growing into the space first. That something is a membrane, or in the hardest cases a titanium mesh.
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Bone is slow and gum is fast. Left alone, soft tissue grows into a bone defect long before bone can fill it, and the graft is wasted. Everything on this page exists to buy bone the time it needs.
The membrane
A membrane is laid over the packed graft material. The clinic’s description of its job is exact: it keeps the graft material stably in place and blocks soft tissue from growing in. That is two functions, and the second one is the reason the technique is called guided bone regeneration.
A membrane becomes likely at grade B and above.
Titanium mesh
Where the defect is vertical, a membrane is not stiff enough: it collapses into the space it is meant to protect. A titanium mesh, in the clinic’s case an Ossbuilder, is rigid. Its stated properties are exactly the two that a vertical case needs: outstanding ability to maintain space, and high biocompatibility.
The photographs on this page show the sequence honestly, and they are surgical. The site is opened, the mesh is fixed over the graft, and after bone has formed the mesh is removed in a second procedure. That second procedure is part of the treatment, not a complication, and it should be in the plan and in the price from the start.
- Membrane
- Likely at graft grade B and above.
- Membrane’s two jobs
- Hold the graft still; keep soft tissue out.
- Titanium mesh
- Graft grade D. Vertical augmentation.
- Mesh product held
- Ossbuilder.
- Mesh removal
- A separate later procedure. Plan for it.
Clinical photographs
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