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Discussions on Bone Grafting

Welcome to the Bone Grafting Section of OsseoNews.com, where you can research, and participate in discussions about Bone Grafting. It's the one place where dentists, surgeons, and industry experts share their knowledge on Bone Grafting.

Recent Bone Grafting Discussions

• Decrease in Radiodensity at Graft Site: Doomed to Failure?

  I recently did a lateral sinus lift and bone graft. The post-op orthopantomograph of the patient after 3 weeks does not show much of the radio-opacity as seen post-op 2 days radiograph in the sinus lift area/grafted area.

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• Dense-PTFE Membrane vs. Expanded-PTFE Membrane ?

  I am a dental student and I am trying to figure out the difference between a dense-PTFE membrane and a expanded-PTFE membrane. What exactly is the difference?

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• Massive Bone Resorption: What Should I Do Now?

  My treatment plan was to extract #12, 13 and 14 atraumatically, place bone graft material and allow the graft sites to heal for 5 months and then place implants.

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• Gap Between Graft and Ridge: What Should I Do?

  A CT scan was taken yesterday and a gap was seen between the graft and the ridge, approximately 0.5mm wide.

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• Reinforcing Allograft Material with a Titanium Mesh?

  My impression is that a lot of the bone loss and graft failure is secondary to micromovement and particulate migration and that this could be circumvented with a rigid “cage” covering the graft.

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• Managing Implant Complications, Flapless Surgery and much more…

  Recognized leader in reconstructive and esthetic dental implant surgery, Dr. Anthony Sclar, shares his thoughts on managing complications, the role of Cone Beam CT, flapless surgery, bone grafts and much more…our most extensive interview yet!

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• Purulent Discharge on the Mesial and Distal: What is Going On?

  After 4 months the bone graft had a radiographic appearance comparable to the surrounding bone so I placed a wide platform dental implant.

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• Grafting an Upper Molar Socket?

  A question came up at our dental implants study club recently and I thought I would post it to get others opinions. The question was: when is it best and when it not best to graft an upper molar socket that you know will require an antral wall sinus lift augmentation later in order to place a dental implant?

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• Securing Mandibular Molar Graft Sites: Best Technique?

  Any advice on the best way to secure socket grafts in mandibular molar sites during socket preservation? I plan on placing a Collaplug to cover the socket graft along with a removable flipper covering the graft site.

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• Alloderm Graft Failure: What Could Have Been Done?

  I recently had a failure of an Alloderm graft placed via a vertical incision medial to previous extraction site and graft # 10. I felt that I had sufficient relaxation of the pocket to prevent compression.

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• No Cortical Bone: What’s the Prognosis?

  I laid a full thickness flap to place a dental implant in the maxillary canine area. The buccal and lingual cortical plates were healthy and sound. But at the height of the alveolar crest, the bone was cancellous without a cortical bone outer surface. I filled the defect with Dyna putty graft material.

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• Re-Establish Lost Palatal Portion after Failed Bone Graft?

  I placed a mineralized freeze dried bone graft and titanium reinforced membrane over an alveolar ridge deficiency and facial defect #9 area. After about 5 weeks, the membrane became exposed on the palate and eventually I had to remove it.

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• Exposure of Graft: How to Manage?

  I have performed a bone block graft from the ramus on the anterior maxilla for future dental implant placement. During healing I had a small fenestration of the flap and exposure of the graft.

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• TCP Bone Graft: Failure Rate?

  I have had two bone grafts, both of which have failed due to ‘exposure’ of the graft material. Specialists I have seen claim that the synthetic material used is cause of the failures…

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• Straumann ITI with Failing Bone Graft

  I placed two Straumann ITI dental implants about one week ago in #19 and 20 areas. The implant in the area of #20 had insufficient buccal bone…

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• PTFE Membrane or Resorbable?

  I placed a dental implant in in the #4, 5 area 5-years ago using a 2-stage surgical protocol. The implant was restored with a cement retained PFM.

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• Infected Site and Bone Graft

  Upon examination, buccal bone was resorbed and bone graft is a must in order to proceed with dental implant placement. Which grafting technique and time frame should I use?

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• Hematoma After Sinus and Graft Procedure

  Does anyone have any idea why this hematoma formed and why the patient developed such a large extra-oral swelling?

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• Alveolar Distraction Osteogenesis

  In which cases should distraction be used? What kinds of complications have you encountered?

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• Noble Tapered Groovy Issues

  I started placing dental implants this past year using Noble Tapered Groovy and have run into issues placing them in my last two cases.

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• Bone Augmentation and Ridge Preservation

  The most important lesson to be learned from the
  literature, as well as from my own personal experience, is that when a
  tooth is extracted, a bone augmentation or preservation procedure must
  be instituted at the time of extraction.

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• An Alternative to Bone Grafting?

  Any thoughts on Medtronic’s Infuse product which an FDA panel recently recommended for approval to help regrow bone in adults to provide an anchor for dental implants?

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• WorldWide Dental Bone Graft Market

  According to Research and Markets, the global market for dental bone graft substitutes and tissue regeneration is valued at over $40 million with Asia Pacific Markets expected to generate over $18 million over the next five years.

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• Cadaver Bone for Grafting?

  How much danger is there really in using cadaver bone for bone grafting? Many of my patients are concerned they may contract a communicable disease. But what are the chances of this?

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• Multiple Failed Bone Grafts

  My periodontist suggested to have a bone graft done before any dental implant placement. When I went back after 4 months, he told me that I lost a lot of bone after he was doing some drilling, and that he has to do another bone graft.

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