Hard Tissue Regeneration Treatment Protocols in Contemporary Oral Surgery

Dental implant placement is one of the most reliable and predictable treatment choices in modern oral surgery. It requires available bone volume to resist the force during loading. There are many ways to regenerate the bone to place the implants with the desired dimensions. Guided bone regeneration, socket grafting, allograft bone block grafting, and intra- and extraoral autogenous bone block grafting are the most popular treatment approaches to reconstruct hard tissues. Autogenous bone graft is still considered the gold standard for the reconstruction of hard tissues. In addition, there are many scaffold biomaterials available that are used as templates for new bone formation. These biomaterials are helpful to not only eliminate the usage of autogenous bone grafts but also decrease patient morbidity. Another advantage of biomaterial usage in tissue regeneration is to reduce the learning curve of treatments by facilitating operative approaches. The aim of this chapter is to evaluate contemporary biomaterials that are used to reconstruct hard tissue defects in oral surgery

FREQUENCY OF DENTAL HARD TISSUE ABNORMALITIES IN THE CHILDREN WHO REFERRED TO PEDODONTICS CLINIC OF ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF DENTISTRY

The aim of this study is to evaluate the percentage of dental hard tissue abnormalities in 596 children (age range between 613 years old) who screened in Pedodontics Clinic of Istanbul University School of Dentistry with oral and dental problems. In children with defects, with clinic examination, the group of tissue abnormalities, the childrens sex, the effected teeth are saved in the examination book. The prevalence of dental hard tissues abnormalities in the population studied was 17%. In this study 105 abnormalities and 100 children effected were identified. Dental hard tissue abnormalities are patologies which directly effect the treatment plan and prognosis. Therefore, dental anomalies are effective upon treatment planning and prognosis in growing child