Abstract
For many decades the success of dental implants has been considered to be dependent predominantly on the quality and quantity of the patient’s alveolar bone. Grafting procedures have been commonly used to rehabilitate severely atrophic jaws but these procedures have disadvantages such as long treatment duration, major surgery, the risk of morbidity in the donor area, and high treatment costs. Recently, the use of 4 zygomatic implants has become an important treatment option in the rehabilitation of extremely atrophic maxilla. The quad zygoma technique is a method applied in cases where conventional implants cannot be used in the anterior maxilla. However, the technique has some difficulties and requires surgical experience. An alternative to the use of quad zygomatic implants is the placement of transnasal with zygomatic implants and subperiosteal implants. The aim of this case report was to present the treatment of a patient with severely atrophic maxilla with zygomatic, pterygoid, and transnasal implants.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
General Medicine,Otorhinolaryngology,Surgery
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