In-office iliac crest bone harvesting for peri-implant jaw reconstruction.
We describe 2 minimally invasive techniques for in-office iliac crest bone harvesting. The increasingly limited access to hospital operating rooms and the increased need for bone grafting to facilitate dental implant-related reconstructions have been the major impetuses behind relocating some of these surgeries to the out-of-hospital, in-office setting.
Freilich
Marshall M
MM
The Hospital for Sick Children and Bloorview Kids Rehab, Department of Dentistry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. drfreilich@rogers.com
Sándor
George K B
GK
D000540:Alveolar Ridge Augmentation / Q000379:methods; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000601:surgery*; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods*