Current Trends in Bone Augmentation Techniques and Dental Implantology
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2022) | Viewed by 17498
Special Issue Editors
Interests: laser; photobiomulation; prosthetic dentistry; digital dentistry
Interests: implantology; oral surgery; periodontology; biomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
The use of dental implants is a routine procedure with predictable outcomes in modern dentistry. For ideal prosthetic design, implants must be placed in the correct three-dimensional (3D) position. Often, alveolar ridge defects do not allow a predictable and driven implant placement. These defects can result from periodontal disease, dental trauma, traumatic extraction, or genetic anomalies.
Different therapeutic options have been described to reconstruct these defects. These techniques include inlay and onlay block bone grafts, bone splitting, distraction osteogenesis, and guided bone regeneration (GBR) using resorbable and nonresorbable barrier membranes. GBR, among all these, seems to improve the predictability of bone augmentation and provides long-term stability to the newly augmented site.
One of the most challenging aspects is related to the healing phase, especially when associated to early exposures of the membranes or the titanium meshes; thus, efforts, aside from correct surgical management, are currently focused on finding the best materials for correct biological integration and instruments/devices which may improve the healing period, such as laser therapy and medications.
In addition to this important timing, the prosthetic plan also plays a strategic role, and current trends on digital techniques are able to minimize the risks related to the manual phase of the impression and the technical workflow.
The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight recent advances in the context of diagnosis, treatment, and the prediction of prognosis for various bone augmentation techniques and their healing.
Prof. Dr. Stefano Benedicenti
Prof. Dr. Nicola De Angelis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bone augmentation
- bone substitute
- laser
- photobiomodulation
- digital impression
- digital workflow
- dental implants
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