Case Details
This patient would like to have dental implants in his right side of his lower jaw. Without any type of bone augmentation procedure to this area, this would not be possible. Therefore, a bone block harvesting procedure is elected in order provide the necessary amount of bone to this area in order to sufficiently support dental implants. In addition, this will also avoid a vertical cantilever (undesirable forces which will lead to implant failures in the near future) to exist from the dental implants if they were inadvisably placed without any bone augmentation procedures. A bone block graft is harvested from a donor site from the patient’s own jaw and is separated into 2 “bone shields” (aka bone veneers, bone shells, bone blades, bone plates), bone particulate, and bone chips. They are all manipulated in shape and size and placed into the donor site in the deficient areas and fastened with fixation screws. The site is then allowed to heal for 4-6 months before dental implants are placed.
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