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Volume 14 , Issue 2
March/April 1994
Pages 97-112

The advantages of localized ridge augmentation prior to implant placement: a staged event

Nevins/Mellonig/Clem III/Reiser/Buser

PMID: 7928133

This paper demonstrates the successful reconstruction of alveolar bone destroyed by advances periodontitis and endodontic failure. It offers a stage approach that is predictable and is superior to extracting the tooth and simultaneously placing an implant fixture, or to extracting the tooth and not performing a ridge enhancement procedure. Four cases using guided tissue regeneration in combination with bone grafts prior to the placement of endosseous dental implants are discussed.

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