Five-year follow-up of modified implant-supported overdenture in an iliac crest autograft failure: clinical report

J Craniofac Surg. 2013;24(5):e523-6. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e3182a23777.

Abstract

The treatment of extensive pathologic lesions in the jaw, most of the time, can generate rehabilitation problems to the patient. The solid ameloblastoma is a locally invasive odontogenic tumor with a high recurrence rate. Its treatment is aggressive and accomplished through resection with safety margin. The criterion standard for reconstruction is autogenous bone, but it can provide a high degree of resorption, causing inconvenience to the patient because of lack of rehabilitative option. This study aimed to describe a patient with ameloblastoma treated through resection and reconstruction with autogenous bone graft, in which, after an extensive resorption of the graft was made, a modified bar was applied to support a prosthetic implant overdenture.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Ameloblastoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Ameloblastoma / surgery*
  • Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported*
  • Denture, Overlay*
  • Graft Rejection
  • Humans
  • Ilium / transplantation*
  • Male
  • Mandibular Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Mandibular Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Mandibular Reconstruction / methods*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed