Bone Graft Material: Ask your dentist about the different types of bone graft materials available (there are synthetic bone graft options)

Your dentist might tell you that, in order to do the dental cavitation surgery, you need a bone graft to fill the cavitation in your bone. The most common type of bone graft material that many dentists recommend is cadaver bone graft. Please note, there are synthetic bone graft materials available. You can also use your own bone (this is called an autograft bone graft or an autologous bone graft), but this requires a separate surgery to harvest the bone material from your rib bone or hip bone (please note, if you go to a person with a DDS degree, they would need to send you to an MD to for this surgery, but if you go to a person with both a DDS degree and an MD degree, that person can do both the bone-harvesting surgery and the dental cavitations surgery, possibly even on the same day). You should ask your dentist about the available options.

The option that I decided to go with is synthetic bone graft. The specific brand of synthetic bone graft that I chose is SteinerBio. SteinerBio has a map on their website that shows the dentists and oral surgeons in the United States that use their synthetic bone graft, https://www.steinerbio.com/find-a-dentist/?source=forpatients. If you are interested in SteinerBio synthetic bone graft, you should know that SteinerBio does not recommend using platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) with their products. They have articles on their website on this topic, such as this one, https://www.steinerbio.com/patient-blog/why-prf-might-not-be-enough-for-bone-regeneration/ and this one, https://www.steinerbio.com/why-prf-does-not-work-for-bone-regeneration/.

Whichever dentist that you choose, you can tell them which type of bone graft that you want, and they will use that on you, even if that is not the one they think is best, and even if they have never worked with that particular type or brand of bone graft material before. All you have to do is ask.