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Treatment of Furcation Involvement Using Autogenous Tooth Graft With 1‐Year Follow‐Up: A Case Series
Author(s) -
Upadhyay Preeti,
Blaggana Vikram,
Tripathi Pragya,
Jindal Manika
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical advances in periodontics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.182
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2163-0097
pISSN - 2573-8046
DOI - 10.1002/cap.10039
Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry , furcation defect , dental alveolus , molar , radiography , orthodontics , surgery
Introduction The objective of this study was to clinically evaluate an autogenous tooth graft (ATG) as a novel bone graft material in the treatment of Class II furcation defects. ATG is prepared at chairside from a freshly extracted tooth to be used immediately for bone regeneration. It has an advantage over the autogenous and other bone graft materials as it is non‐immunogenic, inexpensive, easily available, and lacks donor‐site morbidity. Case Presentation This study was conducted on three middle‐aged (35 to 55 years) male patients, who had at least one mandibular molar with Class II furcation involvement (a total of 5 sites) and one tooth that required extraction because of poor prognosis and was not endodontically treated. At 9 and 12 months, the mean reductions in horizontal probing depth were (1.40 ± 0.57 mm) and (1.52 ± 0.59 mm), respectively, and the mean gains in linear bone‐fill were (3.90 ± 0.15 mm) and (5.33 ± 0.10 mm), respectively. Conclusions Within the limitation of this study, ATG exhibited ideal properties for alveolar bone regeneration. In addition, this study outlines the chairside method to prepare a graft and highlights the improvement in clinical and radiographic parameters at 9 and 12 months.