Bone manipulation

An important implant procedure, often overlooked, with multiple

benefits to our patients

Benefits

1. Efficiency

2. Cost

3. Result

4. Time of treatment

Preoperative Provisional

The labial bone deficiency can be noted on the CT scan and clinically

2.3

mm

Guide the pilot drill between the buccal and lingual cortical plates

Something like this

Sounding of the cortical plates

Expand slowly and easily with osteotomes

The size of the osteotome is gradually increased

Firm finger pressure is used-which is not shown here

The restoration of the anatomy is clear

• The difference in the bone before and after bone expansion is apparent

• A bone grafting procedure with four to six months healing time was not necessary

The final case

All four benefits counted in this case

1. Efficiency

2. Cost

3. Result

4. Time of treatment

Post operative CT scan a year later

The #11 tooth from the same scan

Comparatively speaking, it looks kind of natural

The #9 s

One year