title: Augmentation of residual alveolar bone height with tissue engineering for dental implant placement.
abstract: The challenge of correcting deficient vertical alveolar height for dental implant placement has been there since dental implants came in to regular clinical placement. The ability of various methods to increase the residual alveolar height has met with varying results. The primary reason is that the techniques were not quite successful in maintaining the required residual alveolar height. Use of Bone Morphogentic Protein, especially rhBMP-2 has been met with high degree of success in deficient vertical alveolar height in a mandibular ridge. The demonstration of this using a case has been presented here.
authors.affiliation: Director and Consultant, Balaji Dental and Craniofacial Hospital, Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Balaji
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000540:Alveolar Ridge Augmentation; D000564:Ameloblastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D055396:Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 / Q000008:administration & dosage; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D023822:Tissue Engineering; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: C525718:BMP2 protein, human; D055396:Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2; D011994:Recombinant Proteins