Mineralized Plasmatic Matrix to Enhance the Bone Grafting Technique

Abstract

Dental implants are the best choice to replace missing teeth. However, to place an implant sufficient bone around the implant is needed. Sometimes, the height or the thickness of the natural bone where an implant should be placed is not sufficient. For such cases bone grafting is recommended. In order to succeed bone grafting, it is necessary to achieve a good stability of the graft, enough vascularisation, and a tension free closure of the flap. The use of screwed bone block may solve the stability problem. However, it is hard to shape it, time consuming and it oblige the surgeon to open a second site to harvest the bone. Till today it is recommended to use particles in grafting for small bone defects, because the particles are not stable and it is hard to keep it in place under the chewing forces and movements. The Mineralized Plasmatic Matrix solves this problem, and opens a new age for the use of particles grafting, because by using the fibrin network, it gathers all the particles and offers a very good stability for the graft.