EVALUATION OF BONE DENSITY AROUND IMPLANTS PLACED USING BONE EXPANSION TECHNIQUE: A ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Abstract

Placement of implants in the alveolar bone remains a challenge for most of the clinicians because of resorption of the residual ridge resulting in insufficient bone volume in one or more dimensions. In order to overcome this problem, Bone expansion technique by using osteotomes   is incorporated for the narrow and resorbed ridges. The present study evaluates the variations in the pre operative and post operative bone density using CBCT between drilling technique and bone expansion technique at both buccal and palatal cortical plates at four different levels i.e. at crest, 3 mm below the crest, 6mm below the crest and at the apex and results have shown bone expansion technique is superior to drilling technique.

Keywords Bone density. Osteotomes. Bone expansion. CBCT