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Living Bone Grown for Facial Reconstruction

Researchers led by Columbia University have engineered living bone tissue to repair bone loss...

Cell Therapy Regenerates Maxillofacial Bone

An investigator-initiated Phase I trial using Cytori Cell Therapy in 10 patients with insufficient...

Bone Grafting for Dental Implant Placement

From an anatomical standpoint, it is important for the clinician to clearly understand the...

Maintaining Facial Bone During Extractions

INTRODUCTION As implant dentistry becomes more routine for replacement of nonrestorable teeth, it becomes...

Effective and Simple Bone Grafting

INTRODUCTION Guided bone regeneration has long been used for the clinical preservation of extraction...

ADAA Education and Credentialing of Dental Assistants

ADAA is the voice of dental assistants to the public and to all professional...

Breaking Bone to Create Stronger Bone for Implant Surgery

Although it seems counterintuitive, a bone break can lead to a stronger bone that...

Bone Spreading Technique

Figure 1. Occlusal preoperative view. Figure 2. Buccal aspect is too narrow to consider...

Bone Grafting and Implants: Always the Best Treatment?

Figure 1. Patient before treatment, showing 2 missing maxillary anterior teeth with a large...

Tissue Management Protocol: “Tunnel Bone Graft” Technique

INTRODUCTION Resorption in the edentulous posterior mandible primarily occurs in a buccal to lingual...