TY - JOUR
T1 - Widening a narrow posterior mandibular alveolus following extirpation of a large cyst
T2 - a case treated with a titanium mesh-plate type distractor
AU - Aikawa, Tomonao
AU - Iida, Seiji
AU - Senoo, Hitomi
AU - Hori, Kazuhiro
AU - Namikawa, Mari
AU - Okura, Masaya
AU - Ono, Takahiro
PY - 2008/11/1
Y1 - 2008/11/1
N2 - Vertical alveolar augmentation by distraction osteogenesis has become a standard pretreatment of dental implants due to the main benefit of lack of donor site complications, and many reports have shown its benefit with various types of alveolar distractors. However, autogenous bone transplantation and/or guided bone regeneration techniques are still the standard treatment for correcting a narrow alveolar ridge because of few commercially available distractors for alveolar widening. In this article, we treated a case by a mesh-plate type of alveolar widening distractor for a narrow posterior mandibular alveolar ridge after extirpation of a large jaw cyst.
AB - Vertical alveolar augmentation by distraction osteogenesis has become a standard pretreatment of dental implants due to the main benefit of lack of donor site complications, and many reports have shown its benefit with various types of alveolar distractors. However, autogenous bone transplantation and/or guided bone regeneration techniques are still the standard treatment for correcting a narrow alveolar ridge because of few commercially available distractors for alveolar widening. In this article, we treated a case by a mesh-plate type of alveolar widening distractor for a narrow posterior mandibular alveolar ridge after extirpation of a large jaw cyst.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tripleo.2008.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.tripleo.2008.07.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 18805714
AN - SCOPUS:53249113066
VL - 106
SP - e1-e7
JO - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
JF - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
SN - 2212-4403
IS - 5
ER -