Maxilla reconstruction with 100% BioOss: A clinical and tomographic follow-up study.

Background: Tooth loss and use of a complete denture is still a reality and results in bone loss. Adequate reconstruction of an extremely atrophic edentulous maxilla is a challenge, and different treatment methods have been described for its resolution.

Material And Methods: Patients seeking implant placement in edentulous upper jaw with atrophic maxilla were selected in a private clinic in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease of oxidative stress: We should treat it that way.

Periodontitis is a highly prevalent disease. As it progresses, it causes serious morbidity in the form of periodontal abscesses and tooth loss and, in the latter stages, pain. It is also now known that periodontitis is strongly associated with several nonoral diseases.