Horizontal and Vertical Bone Augmentation for Dental Implant Therapy

Without sufficient bone volume there is no predictable implant, and the deficit rarely admits a single solution. Craig Misch brings together a panel of clinicians and researchers to bring order to the decision: assessment criteria, biological principles, diagnosis and planning, and then the techniques and materials of horizontal and vertical augmentation. The axis of the text is the Michigan Classification, developed with Hom-Lay Wang, which translates the type of defect into an evidence-based decision tree. Guided bone regeneration, platelet-rich fibrin, recombinant growth factors, custom scaffolds and prosthetically driven virtual planning complete the route.