ALVEOLAR RIDGE AUGMENTATION USING AUTOGENOUS CHIN GRAFT AND SIMULTANEOUS IMPLANT PLACEMENT. A CASE REPORT

With increased awareness on dental implants, more and more patients are presenting to dental practitioners requesting for fixed solutions to their dilemmas. For successful osseointegration the placement of endosteal implants requires adequate bone volume.Alveolar ridge resorption is a common phenomenon that occurs after tooth loss which alters the size and shape of the host bone available for the dental implant placement. When the morphology of the bone does not allow proper implant placement, there are various bone augmentation procedures which aids in reconstruction of the residual alveolar ridge for ideal implant placement. The use of autogenous bone grafts continues to represent the “gold standard” in implant site reconstructive surgery despite recent advances in bone grafts and bone substitute technology. The mandibular symphysis i.e, chin bone in interforaminal region is a favorable donor site as it has an excellent risk-benefit ratio. Several augmentation procedures using chin graft have been proposed to increase alveolar bone volume to for correct placement of oral implants. This article describes a case report of localized alveolar ridge augmentation using particulate bone autografts harvested from mandibular symphysis with simultaneous implant placement.