Rehabilitation of Trauma Using Dental Implants
The goal of replacing missing teeth while respecting otherwise untouched tooth structure and the avoidance of crown reduction in bridge preparation make the use of dental implants an ideal option…
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Use of Dental Implants in the Management of Dental Malformations
Dental anomalies include structural defects in enamel and dentin, fusion of teeth, and hamartomas such as odontomas. Enamel defects occur as a heterogenous spectrum of types, with different genetic etiologies,…
Dental Implants, Growth of the Jaws, and Determination of Skeletal Maturity
In this article, the authors examine the optimal time for dental placements in young individuals and emphasize the importance of ensuring skeletal maturity has been reached, except in some situations…
Use of Dental Implants in the Management of Syndromal Oligodontia
Every instance of agenesis of a tooth represents an inborn error in dentogenesis. Just as current knowledge of metabolic and regulatory roles of essential molecules has been shaped partly by…
Dental Implants in the Management of Nonsyndromal Oligodontia
Oligodontia has been reported to be the most or one of the most common developmental dental anomalies. The severity and pattern of oligodontia has been shown to affect craniofacial morphology,…
Acknowledgements
This Atlas has tried to convey the guiding principles governing the use of dental implants in young patients and to catalogue the treatment of a wide variety of conditions in…
Dedication
This issue is dedicated to our own children, Kinga, Enikő, Hunor, Hayley, Nicholas, and Brittany, and to all those other children and parents who have enabled us to write this…
Orthopedic and Orthodontic Management of Distal Segment Position During Distraction Osteogenesis
Long-bone distraction osteogenesis as developed by Ilizarov, Codvilla, and others used a circumferential distraction device that provided controlled linear bone elongation. The distraction device could be applied directly parallel to…
Alveolar Modification by Distraction Osteogenesis
After approximately 10 years of clinical practice, alveolar distraction osteogenesis has evolved in reconstruction of the jaw and alveolus into three options: (1) definitive alveolar distraction osteogenesis—used to finalize reconstruction…
