About the Editor

Zvi Artzi, DMD, is a Professor of Periodontology at the Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology, in The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

List of Contributors xi

Preface xv

Acknowledgement xvii

About the Companion Website xix

Introduction xxi

Part I Basic Mechanisms 1

1 The Anatomy of the Maxilla and the Mandible: Related Structures and Inserted Muscles 3
Dmitri Lev and Zvi Artzi

2 Biologic Conditions for Bone Growth and Maintenance: Managing the Oxidative Stress 17
Joseph Choukroun, Elisa Choukroun, and Maximilien Parnot

3 Biomaterials Selection - Cellular Interactions During Regenerative and Remodeling Phases 43
Itzhak Binderman, Michal Halperin-Sternfeld, Erez Netanely, Snje?ana Pohl, Robert A. Horowitz, and Zvi Artzi

4 Allogeneic Bone Grafts 61
Michele Jacotti and Fabio Bernardello

5 The Role of Osteopromotive Membranes in Guided Bone Regeneration 69
Elena Calciolari, Aliye Akcal1, and Nikolaos Donos

Part II The Anterior Maxilla 95

6 Esthetic Considerations 97
Goran I. Benic, Riccardo Kraus, Shaoxia Pan, and Christoph H.F. Hämmerle

7 Soft Tissue Management in the Anterior Maxilla 117
Daniel S. Thoma, Hyun-Chang Lim, and Christoph H.F. Hämmerle

8 Treatment Alternatives for Soft Tissue Procedures in the Maxilla 131
Carlos E. Nemcovsky

9 Modifications of Anterior Maxillary Sandwich Osteotomy for Vertical Bone Augmentation 163
Ole T. Jensen

10 Autogenous Bone Block Transplantation in the Anterior Maxilla 169
Federico Hernández-Alfaro and Gian Maria Ragucci

11 Allogeneic Block Grafts in the Anterior Maxilla 181
Michele Jacotti and Fabio Bernardello

12 Confronting Severe Deficiencies in the Anterior Maxilla 195
Zvi Artzi

13 Management of Complications in Anterior Maxilla During Guided Bone Regeneration 235
Isabella Rocchietta, Federico Moreno, and David Nisand

Part III The Posterior Maxilla 255

14 Sinus Augmentation: The Transcrestal Approach 257
Leonardo Trombelli, Roberto Farina, Giovanni Franceschetti, and Zvi Artzi

15 Sinus Augmentation: The Lateral Approach 283
Tiziano Testori, Riccardo Scaini, Matteo Deflorian, and Stephen S. Wallace

16 Maxillary Sinus Floor Augmentation: The Lateral Approach in Unusual Cases 309
Zvi Artzi

Part IV The Anterior Mandible 329

17 Re-establishment of Adequate Osseous Volume in an Atrophic Anterior Mandible 331
Zvi Artzi

18 Anterior Atrophic Mandible Restoration Using Cancellous Bone Block Allograft 379
Gavriel Chaushu, Liat Chaushu, Karen Anavi Lev, Joseph Nissan, and Zvi Artzi

Part V The Posterior Mandible 399

19 Options for Restoring the Atrophic Posterior Mandible - Vertical and Horizontal Bone Augmentation 401
Zvi Artzi

20 Cortico-Cancellous Block (CCB) Transplantation in the Posterior Mandible 431
Zvi Artzi

21 Allogeneic Block Grafts in the Posterior Mandible 445
Michele Jacotti and Fabio Bernardello

Part VI Other Advancing Techniques 453

22 Interpositional Bone Grafts: Sandwich Interposition in the Lateral Mandible and Le Fort I Interposition in the Maxilla 455
Hendrik Terheyden

23 Preprosthetic Orthognathic Surgery 471
Dror M. Allon

Part VII Additional Related Subjects 487

24 Biofilms Around Dental Implants 489
David Herrera, Patricia Bermejo, María del Carmen Sánchez, Elena Figuero, and Mariano Sanz

25 Prevention and Management of Peri-Implant Diseases 505
Sofia Aroca, Giovanni E. Salvi, Andrea Roccuzzo, Uri Renert, Anton Sculean, and Zvi Artzi

Index 523