Clinical Evaluation Of Soft Tissue Closure In Alveolar Ridge Preservation Procedures

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Tooth loss is accompanied by different patterns of bone loss. Up to 50% loss of alveolar crestal bone width will likely occur 1 year after tooth loss, especially in the anterior maxilla. A great percentage of the process of alveolar bone resorption occurs within the first 3 to 6 months post-extraction. If ridge preservation is not conducted, 40%-60% of the total alveolar bone volume is lost during the first 2-3 years post-extraction, and this phenomenon has shown to continue to occur at a rate of 0.25%-0.5% loss per year. It has been proposed that ridge augmentation procedures may reduce the expected ridge reduction after tooth loss. Ridge augmentation procedures may require the use of bone grafts and non-resorbable or non-resorbable barrier membranes. The use of non-resorbable barrier membranes for ridge augmentation has the clinical disadvantage of needing a second procedure for its removal during the healing phase. Osteogen® plug (OPP) consists of a non-ceramic bone graft incorporated in type I bovine Achilles tendon collagen. OPP was first developed to serve as a one-step grafting solution for ridge preservation without the need for a barrier membrane

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