title: Inferior-border rib grafting for augmentation of the atrophic edentulous mandible.
abstract: Use of inferior-border grafting eliminates many of the problems associated with transoral onlay graft procedures. With an inferior-border graft, the graft does not bear the direct pressure of a prosthesis and allows for increase in mandibular height without as much loss of vestibule as in a transoral graft. A skin-graft vestibuloplasty is performed 6 to 12 months after rib grafting but the patient can wear a denture in the interim.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000543:Alveoloplasty / Q000379:methods*; D001284:Atrophy / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000601:surgery*; D008336:Mandibular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D009066:Mouth, Edentulous / Q000601:surgery*; D012272:Ribs / Q000637:transplantation*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014727:Vestibuloplasty