Abstract
Dental rehabilitation of patients is often thwarted by lack of alveolar bone as a result of atrophy, trauma, or surgery. The following papers present some of the evidence on which decisions regarding surgical care can be based to facilitate the provision of implant-supported restorations.Nystrom E, Ahlqvist J, Gunne J, Kahnberg KE. Ten-year follow-up of onlay bone grafts and implants in severely resorbed maxillae. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2004;33:258–62.Thirty patients with extreme resorption of the maxillary alveolus (less than 4mm width and 7mm height) had onlay bone grafting, a horseshoe graft including two cortical layers being harvested from the iliac crest.
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