title: Posterior atrophic mandible rehabilitation with onlay allograft created with CAD-CAM procedure: a case report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Implant rehabilitation of the atrophic right posterior mandible in a 48-year-old woman using dehydrated homologous bone block, shaped with a computer aided design-computer aided manufacturing (CAD-CAM) system, to avoid harvesting of autologous bone block and to assure a perfect fitting of the block above the alveolar crest.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After 7 months, 6.09, 7.36, and 8.08 mm (mean, 7.18 mm) of total horizontal bone gain was observed at sites 6, 12, and 18 mm posterior to the right mental foramen, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The use of a bone block with CAD-CAM system for alveolar ridge augmentation is a valuable alternative to autograft because it reduces time, cost, and complications for the patients. Data from a computerized tomographic scan can be used to shape a precise 3-dimensional homologous bone block using a CAD-CAM system.
authors.affiliation: *Private Practice, Brescia, Italy. †Unit of Periodontology and Implantology, Bologna Dental School, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jacotti
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barausse
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Felice
mesh_terms: D016301:Alveolar Bone Loss / Q000601:surgery*; D000540:Alveolar Ridge Augmentation / Q000379:methods; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous / Q000379:methods*; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007284:Inlays / Q000379:methods*; D008336:Mandibular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016348:Osseointegration