Reconstruction Of Severely Atrophic Pre-maxilla Using RhBMP-2 And Titanium Mesh For Dental Implants

The use of dental implants for oral rehabilitations has become a routine procedure in the practice in dentistry. An increasing number of fully and partially edentulous patients seek this type of rehabilitation for the advantage of being a fixed and conservative solution to the tooth loses. Dental implants must be planned and placed at the best tridimensional position in the alveolar process in order to restore masticatory and phonetic functions, in addition to esthetics. For this purpose, the treatment plan is governed primarily by the prosthetic design.1 A significant number of patients present with bone defects that do not allow a prosthetically driven implant placement due to lack of bone resulting from numerous etiologies, such as: periodontal disease, traumatic dental extraction and/or physiologic absorption.