title: Rehabilitation of a patient with gunshot injury through the iliac graft and implant-retained restorations with a 3-year follow-up: a brief clinical study.
abstract: Trauma is one of the most common causes of teeth loss. Assault with a gunshot and bullet shot is life threatening, and for patients who survive the injury, it results in hard and soft tissue loss in the tissues and organs crossed by the bullet. The tissue loss results in the loss of structure and function. Rehabilitation of these patients to function and aesthetics requires surgical and prosthodontic procedures over time. This report is of a 24-year-old male patient who had a bullet injury resulting in hard and soft tissue deficiency. The ridge deficiency was augmented with iliac bone graft, and 3 months later, implants were placed. Five months later, hybrid prosthesis was delivered. At 3-year follow-up visit, the hybrid prosthesis was replaced with porcelain fused to a metal bridge. The bone levels on all the implants were stable.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Implantology and Periodontics, †Implantology and Prosthodontics, ‡Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, §Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and ∥Implantology and Periodontics, SDM College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Sudhindra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
authors.forename: Sujatha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kamath
authors.forename: Roopak
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nayak
authors.forename: Sampath
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.forename: Gopal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Krishnan
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ganeshkar
authors.forename: Srinath
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thakur
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016301:Alveolar Bone Loss / Q000601:surgery*; D001863:Bone Screws; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D003765:Models, Dental; D009065:Mouth Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012086:Reoperation; D014081:Tooth Extraction; D018677:Tooth Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000534:rehabilitation*