Osteoplastic flap to broaden a narrow mandibular ridge.
For an endosseous dental implant to be successful, it needs an amount of bone in three-dimensions: height, width and thickness. I report the case of a 17-year-old man with congenital absence of all four lower incisor teeth and a knife-edged shaped upper margin of the mandible.
Storrs
T J
TJ
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, Canterbury, CT1 3NG Kent, UK. storrs@supanet.com
D000293:Adolescent; D000540:Alveolar Ridge Augmentation / Q000379:methods*; D000848:Anodontia / Q000534:rehabilitation; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000002:abnormalities; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000601:surgery*; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods*