title: Cranial bone grafting and simultaneous implants: a submental technique to reconstruct the atrophic mandible.
abstract: Results after treatment of severe maxillary and mandibular atrophy (Cawood classes V and VI) are often unsatisfactory and unpredictable. Reconstruction of such severely resorbed edentulous jaws represents a challenge. In maxillofacial surgery, bone grafts from the skull (split calvarial bone grafts) are commonly used for reconstruction of large bone defects of the midface. In the 1990s, various authors reported alveolar-ridge augmentation using calvarial bone grafts. This is the first report of its kind describing an extraoral approach for cranial bone grafting with simultaneous implant placement to the atrophic mandible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA. rajeshg@uab.edu
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gutta
authors.forename: Peter D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Waite
mesh_terms: D000540:Alveolar Ridge Augmentation / Q000379:methods; D001284:Atrophy; D001862:Bone Resorption / Q000601:surgery; D001863:Bone Screws; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous / Q000379:methods*; D015921:Dental Implants; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016348:Osseointegration / Q000502:physiology; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D011862:Radiography, Panoramic; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D012886:Skull
chemical_list: D015921:Dental Implants