Sinus lift technique and dental implants for rehabilitation for a Down syndrome patient with tomographic 3-years follow-up.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to report a surgical procedure of sinus lift to enable the installation of dental implants in the posterior region of the maxilla. A 50 year-old patient with T21 was rehabilitated with implants, simultaneously with sinus lift surgery, by the lateral window technique, using xenogenous bone graft and fibrin-rich plasma. After 1 year, the patient was rehabilitated with prosthetics on implants. The feasibility of this technique in patients with Down syndrome could be observed, after 3 years of follow up, with favorable clinical results.