Direct Drilling and GBR for Implant Placement in Anterior Maxilla with Horizontal Bone Defect: a Step-by-step Correcting Direction Drilling Technique 
Bo Meng1,2 
,
David L. Cochran2 
,
Hai Qing3 ,
Lei Zhou1
,
David L. Cochran2 ,
Hai Qing3 ,
Lei Zhou1
1. Oral implantology center, Guangdong Provincial Stomatological Hospital, South Medical University, Guangzhou, 510280, China
2. Department of periodontics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA
3. Department of restorative dentistry, Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140,USA
Author Correspondence author
International Journal of Clinical Case Reports, 2015, Vol. 5, No. 15 doi: 10.5376/ijccr.2015.05.0015
Received: 15 Feb., 2015 Accepted: 17 Mar., 2015 Published: 24 Apr., 2015
Author Correspondence author
International Journal of Clinical Case Reports, 2015, Vol. 5, No. 15 doi: 10.5376/ijccr.2015.05.0015
Received: 15 Feb., 2015 Accepted: 17 Mar., 2015 Published: 24 Apr., 2015
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Meng et al., 2015, Direct Drilling and GBR for Implant Placement in Anterior Maxilla with Horizontal Bone Defect: a Step-by-step Correcting Direction Drilling Technique, International Journal of Clinical Case Reports, Vol.5, No.15 1-5 (doi: 10.5376/ijccr.2015.05.0015)
Abstract
Objective: To describe a simple drilling technique to simultaneously place implant in horizontally deficient anterior maxilla.
Study design: A horizontal bone defect was noticed in a 20-year-old male with two missing maxillary middle incisors. We used a step-by-step drilling technique to prepare the implant site, during which the drill preparing directions was corrected step by step to the final ideal direction. Then the implants were placed and bone grafting materials were used in undercut for guided bone regeneration. After 6 months the implants was restored and followed for 2 years by cone beam CT.
Results: Clinical and radiograph evaluation revealed new bone formation at the labial side of anterior maxilla. Final crowns were restored and the new bone formation demonstrated a stable situation during the 2 year follow-up.
Conclusion: This step-by-step correcting direction technique can be used as an alternative procedure to overcome the horizontal bone defect in anterior maxilla.
Keywords
Dental implants; Alveolar augmentation; Case report
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