Discussions on Ridge Augmentation

My question is should he also do an alveolar ridge augmentation on the left side so that the right and left sides are at the same occlusogingival level?

Anyone have any experience with Tunnel Grafting for lateral ridge augmentation?

I have a healthy young adult male who is missing #7 and I’m planning a single free-standing dental implant fixture. The buccolingual dimension of the alveolar ridge in that area appears to have a buccal concavity.

I have seen a new technique for augmentation of vertical height of bone on deficient alveolar ridges. You harvest autogenous bone and mix it with particulate bone graft material and/or particulate hydroxyapatite and deliver this on to the ridge.

I sent a dental implant patient over to my oral surgeon to find out if he could have a bone graft on his maxillary alveolar ridges to increase bone height, width and volume.

But when I examined the patient at 6 months post-op, the alveolar ridge had undergone 4mm of bucco-lingual resorption exposing the threads on both dental implants.

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?

Are there any other techniques for augmenting alveolar ridge height other than using a block graft?

I recently became aware of a technique for using a balloon type device for expanding the alveolar ridge area prepatory to tissue expansion procedures. Has anybody used this approach for alveolar ridge augmentation?

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

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.

Ridge height is adquate for 10mm length dental implants, however ridge widgth is inadequate. Provided inital stabilization is present, would this be considered too risky if approximtately 50% of the facial threads are exposed after osteotomy and dental implant placement?