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In the case of edentulous jaw with very thin or deformed alveolar crest, alveoplasty with bone graft should be required for dental implants. The graft should usually be fixed using a metal plate,screw, or circumferential wiring, which might obstruct the implantation of the dental implants when not removed. The materials were considered, and it was decided to make nails from the graft, autogenous cortical bone of the iliac crest. Fixing of grafted bone by this method has been performed on 5 cases at our clinic. As a result, autogenous bone nail for alveoplasty showed sufficient strength to fix the graft obtaining excellent results, and the nail did not need to be removed afterward, unlike an artificial material. Within a few weeks after grafting, dental implantation was performed successfully. This paper reports the method and how to make and utilize autogenous bone nails to fix grafted bone, will be reported in the future.
