Cleft palate is a congenital deformity with soft tissue and hard tissue defects. Normal cleft palate repairing surgery only repairs soft tissue defects, whereas bone defects in the hard palate still exist. Therefore, we conducted this study in beagles to observe the influence of bone grafting at primary surgery on craniofacial growth and occlusal relationships in individuals with complete cleft...

BACKGROUND Insufficient alveolar bone height often prevents the placement of standard dental implants in the posterior part of edentulous maxilla. In order to increase adequately the vertical dimension of the reabsorbed alveolar process, a sinus lift procedure is often necessary. The aim of this study was to evaluate histologic results of a prehydrated corticocancellous porcine bone used in max...

Alveolar bone grafting is a standard method for treating alveolar cleft. To ensure the best outcome, improving the arch form as well as soft tissue quality in the area around the cleft is recommended. In this study, 11 patients who presented with alveolar cleft and collapsed maxillary arch were treated in the following sequence: transpalatal distraction osteogenesis followed by soft tissue surg...

Rehabilitation of edentulous posterior maxilla with implant-supported prostheses frequently presents a challenge to dentists. This is due to insufficient bone within the region, in addition to other limiting factors such as anatomical pneumatization of the maxillary sinus. Thus, grafting of the maxillary sinus is a common procedure used to counteract these problems. Regardless of the type of bi...

introduction: gold standard for alveolar cleft bone grafting is autogenous bone. advantage of adding the growth factors to the bone is established, so adding prf to the autogenous bone may have beneficial effects. methods:  platelet-rich plasma admixed with autogenous bone and as a biologic membrane over the bone grafted alveolar cleft was used. results:  autogenous bone in all (four cases) was...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was the clinical and the histologic evaluation of fresh frozen human bone (FFB) allografts used for maxillary sinus-augmentation procedures. METHODS Ten subjects were treated with maxillary sinus augmentations using FFB. Radiologic measurements were recorded on computed tomography scans preoperatively and 5 months after the sinus surgeries. At 5 mon...

The aims of the present study were to clinically and histologically evaluate human fresh frozen bone (FFB) grafts used to treat severe maxillary horizontal defects prior to dental implant placement. Ten patients were treated with FFB onlay grafts. Measurements using computed tomography scans were recorded preoperatively and at 5 months. Six core biopsies were retrieved and processed for light m...

Objective: This study is to investigate possibility of usingcynomolgus monkeys as models to provide theoretical reference for maxillary sinus related scientific research of non-human primates. Methods: Cone bean CT (CBCT) scanning was performed in 20 sides of maxillary sinus from 10 cynomolgus monkeys. Measurements were conducted with the occlusal plane of bilateral maxillary first premolar to ...

Since the bone dehiscence of the anterior wall of the maxillary sinus is closely related to aging, osteoblasts and osteoclasts were studied morphometrieally and statistically . Ninety three bone fragments of the anterior wall of the maxillary sinus were taken at sur gery and served as specimens for this study. These operated patient were from 11 years old to 71 years old, 51 males and 42 female...