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Volume 18 , Issue 4
July/August 1998
Pages 403-409

The Use of a Soft Tissue Expander in an Alveolar Bone Ridge Augmentation for Implant Placement

Zeiter/Ries/Weir/Mishkin/Hendley/Sanders

PMID: 12693426

A narrow mandibular posterior alveolar ridge was modified by the use of a soft tissue expander to generate adequate tissue for graft coverage. The principles of osteoperiosteal flaps were combined with guided bone regeneration techniques for an optimum amount of bone at the site.

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