Open AccessAugmentation of residual alveolar bone height with tissue engineering for dental implant placement
Author(s) -
SM Balaji
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.138360
Subject(s) - dental alveolus , alveolar ridge , dentistry , implant , dental implant , residual , medicine , orthodontics , surgery , computer science , algorithm
The challenge of correcting deficient vertical alveolar height for dental implant placement has been there since dental implants came in to regular clinical placement. The ability of various methods to increase the residual alveolar height has met with varying results. The primary reason is that the techniques were not quite successful in maintaining the required residual alveolar height. Use of Bone Morphogentic Protein, especially rhBMP-2 has been met with high degree of success in deficient vertical alveolar height in a mandibular ridge. The demonstration of this using a case has been presented here.