title: Widening a narrow posterior mandibular alveolus following extirpation of a large cyst: a case treated with a titanium mesh-plate type distractor.
abstract: Vertical alveolar augmentation by distraction osteogenesis has become a standard pretreatment of dental implants due to the main benefit of lack of donor site complications, and many reports have shown its benefit with various types of alveolar distractors. However, autogenous bone transplantation and/or guided bone regeneration techniques are still the standard treatment for correcting a narrow alveolar ridge because of few commercially available distractors for alveolar widening. In this article, we treated a case by a mesh-plate type of alveolar widening distractor for a narrow posterior mandibular alveolar ridge after extirpation of a large jaw cyst.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomonao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aikawa
authors.forename: Seiji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: Hitomi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Senoo
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: Mari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Namikawa
authors.forename: Masaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okura
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ono
mesh_terms: D000540:Alveolar Ridge Augmentation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001860:Bone Plates; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008336:Mandibular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D009807:Odontogenic Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D019857:Osteogenesis, Distraction / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014081:Tooth Extraction; D055815:Young Adult