Oral surgery: Prominent bone shelves

Bone tissue engineering in oral surgery: a new method of bone development in periodontal surgery.

This article describes the development of a new surgical approach to periodontal treatment. Twenty patients who suffered from bone defects without existing bony walls due to adult periodontitis were treated in three different groups using methods of bone tissue engineering. At that time no surgical technique existed that could be applied to those patients to generate new bone. The periodontal s...

Piezosurgery: Ultrasonic bone surgery in periodontics and oral implantology- Review

Periodontitis is one of the chronic inflammatory disease of the tooth-supporting structures. The treatment of periodontitis is based on the removal of local factors and restoration of the bony architecture. Traditionally, manual or motor driven instrument are used to perform osseous surgery, but both have their own advantage and disadvantages. Recently, a novel surgical approach using the piezo...

Contemporary Bone Augmentation Procedures in Oral and Maxillofacial Implant Surgery

Physicochemical Characteristics of Bone Substitutes Used in Oral Surgery in Comparison to Autogenous Bone

Bone substitutes used in oral surgery include allografts, xenografts, and synthetic materials that are frequently used to compensate bone loss or to reinforce repaired bone, but little is currently known about their physicochemical characteristics. The aim of this study was to evaluate a number of physical and chemical properties in a variety of granulated mineral-based biomaterials used in den...

Advances in bone surgery: the Er:YAG laser in oral surgery and implant dentistry

The erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (Er:YAG) laser has emerged as a possible alternative to conventional methods of bone ablation because of its wavelength of 2.94 μm, which coincides with the absorption peak of water. Over the last decades in several experimental and clinical studies, the widespread initial assumption that light amplification for stimulated emission of radiation (laser) ...