Bone Grafting Strategies for Vertical Alveolar Augmentation
Ole T. Jensen, DDS, MS
Michael A. Pikos, DDS
Massimo Simion, DDS
Tomaso Vercellotti, MD, DDS



Strategies to increase alveolar vertical dimension fall into six general categories: (1)guided bone graft augmentation, (2)onlay block grafting, (3)interposition alveolar bone graft, (4)alveolar distraction osteogenesis, (5)iliac corticocancellous augmentation bone graft, and (6)the sinus bone graft.

The difficulty in gaining and maintaining alveolar vertical augmentation is well established in the literature, but the various procedures that have been used have been complicated by relapse and resorption. Augmentations without the placement of implants generally resorb unless a nonresorbable grafting material such as hydroxylapatite is used.

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