I’ve had some Alvelac in my clinic for over a year now. Some patients may think that with such a cool and innovative product, I must have been using lots of it. Actually, no.
While everything mentioned in the video is quite true, the video did not mention anything about alternative methods of socket preservation. There is also a casually mentioned condition that must be satisfied for the product to work - buccal and lingual walls. In other words, the extraction socket must be without defect and completely surrounded by bone.
First of all, the majority of tooth extractions are indicated because of gum disease. Irreversible, advanced gum disease is always accompanied by severe bone loss. No buccal wall. Maybe not much of a lingual wall either. Conclusion? Alvelac won’t make a difference in these cases.
Let’s say that the tooth has fractured for some reason or another and it was somehow possible to extract the fractured tooth without damaging the buccal wall. Sure, Alvelac will work, but why use it when the conditions which are ideal for Alvelac are also ideal for immediate implant placement?
Why not place the implant immediately, save the patient future surgeries and the cost of the Alvelac?
