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Sinus floor elevation entrance: From where do we enter and why?
April 16 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
The sinus floor elevation lateral of crestal approach unveiled with clear guidelines.
Dental implants have been a proven treatment modality for failing of missing teeth. Although most teeth have enough vertical alveolar bone, this might not be the case from the second premolar to the second molar in the maxilla. Owing to the pneumatiaation of the Schneiderian membrane the maxillary sinus can take up vertical space. That in combination with vertical resorption after extraction can lead up to limited vertical bone. There are different strategies to overcome this situation, which can be: the placement of short implants, doing a sinus floor elevation with a lateral window technique or performing a crestal sinus floor elevation with the Summers technique.
A more novel technique is to densify the bone crestally or even a crestal sinus floor elevation with Densah drills. This lecture will focus on a clear strategy on beforehand and evidence-based decision making for choosing the right technique. All the different techniques will be explained step by step for placing a short implant, performing a lateral sinus floor elevation with piezo and performing a crestal sinus floor elevation with Densah drills.
