The authors' experience with oral rehabilitation of patients suffering from oligodontia (i.e. six or more congenitally missing permanent teeth, third molars excluded) is reported. The concept is based on an interdisciplinary team approach involving pedodontists, orthodontists, maxillofacial surgeons and prosthodontists. A series of 112 consecutive patients suffering from oligodontia were referr...

UNLABELLED Extraction, periodontitis, or trauma can cause a reduction on the alveolar ridge. This could result in an insufficient alveolar bone width and height. Different techniques of vertical bone augmentation are described in literature. However, nowadays there is not enough evidence against lateral augmentation procedures to verify if these techniques are stable over a long period of time....

Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the clinical outcomes of bone augmentation with a mixture cortico-cancellous allograft and xenograft collagen membrane in horizontal knife-edge alveolar crests.
 Material Method: Patients ridge thickness less than 4 mm by preoperative tomography were included study. Twelve patients (10 Female, 2 Male) treated Cortico-Cancellous Allograft Bovine Bone Mineral...

Objective: This study aims to provide insights into the evolution and trends of academic efforts in field alveolar ridge augmentation through a bibliometric analysis. The objective is assist researchers interested future work within this domain by identifying potential areas exploration contributing field's advancement. Methods: analysis encompasses publications related between 2000 2023, sourc...

Repair of large oral bone defects such as vertical alveolar ridge augmentation could benefit from the rapidly developing additive manufacturing technology used to create personalized osteoconductive devices made porous tricalcium phosphate/hydroxyapatite (TCP/HA)-based bioceramics. These can be also hydrogel carriers improve their osteogenic potential. However, TCP/HA constructs are prone britt...

OBJECTIVE To systematically assess the literature regarding the clinical, histological, and radiographic outcome of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP-2, BMP-7), growth/differentiation factor-5 (GDF-5), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), and parathyroid hormone (PTH) for localized alveolar ridge augmentation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five separate Medline searches were performed in duplicate fo...

Shing-Wai Yip, DDS, MS, DScD Director, Prosthodontics Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital No.201, Sec. 2, Shipai Rd., Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan Tel: 886-2-2875-7572; E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Alveolar ridge deformity occurs frequently a er teeth loss, leading to esthetic and functional compromises especially in the anterior maxilla. This case report demonstrates a two-...