Over the years, there have been a series of innovative approaches to the alveolar bone augmentation techniques. These have led to the modifications of the existing methods and the establishment of more efficient ways to obtain sufficient bone mass that is necessary for the implant procedure. The aim of this research is to present a novel surgical technique that was applied on 5 patients with atrophied alveolar bone to perform horizontal augmentation at the posterior maxilla with the use of partial alveolar split osteotomy and inter-positional block bone grafts.

A novel approach for horizontal augmentation of posterior maxilla- technical note