Evaluation of success of alveolar cleft bone graft performed at 5 years versus 10 years of age.

Background And Purpose: Although alveolar cleft bone grafting is the most widely accepted approach, controversies remain on the operative timing.

Methods: A consecutive retrospective series of 28 patients who received alveolar bone grafting was examined and divided into 2 groups depending on the age at the time of bone graft. Group A (14 patients) was operated at a mean age of 5.

Radiological sinus lift: a new minimally invasive CT-guided procedure for maxillary sinus floor elevation in implant dentistry.

Purpose: Implant therapy has become an excellent treatment modality as its inception into the modern era of dentistry. However, when patients present with advanced atrophy of the maxillary alveolar ridge, the procedure of choice to restore the anatomic bone deficiency is surgical maxillary sinus floor elevation or sinus lift. The purpose of this study was to describe the CT guided sinus lift technique and to illustrate the minimally invasive aspect of this new radiological procedure called radiological sinus lift.