Maxillary Ridge Split Procedure

[Hoopla245654]

Noe I think that this man deserves a lollipop for all his hard work

[Pupil52]

Excellently, charm ! Хорошая методика. Приму на вооружение.

[changeyouraura]

dr g, we miss you, we inherited your surgical room and its my favorite room!!!!! thhis is a grea video, i hope i can get into a great dental school becasue you ifluencexd dr c.

[MrGentjan]

Do you think that implant is not on right angulation?

[88happyangi]

this  is not splitting ...

[eBiology]

This is a very interesting, and most likely very effective approach, but for some reason I still like the fixture screw approach. It just seems more practical. The fins seem like a great idea, but threads seem more economical. Nice work though!

[rudimukh]

Hilt Tatum was devestated that this video was named 'Ridge Split'. According to his definition, its expansion and not splitting because periosteal blood supply is maintained and hence done flapless. Very good video - shame people comment negatively because they are what the tatum institute call Screwologists, not Implantologists.

[rudimukh]

The Tatum D-Fin has many advantages over the screw - bone forms between the fins and it has immense strength due to the bone being under compressive load. The labial expansion has allowed for aesthetic emergence profile and the Tatum system has posts that are angled up to 60 degrees for easy prosthetics. In short, allows superior aesthetics and integration and removes need to graft. It requires more skill to understand and execute bone expansion techniques rather than drilling.

[franciscablu]

terrible

[byzonoo]

I would love to see 1 month recall and prosthetics

[tatsumei]

Implant is not just a bone work, implant is a part of prosthodontics. Good osseointegration doesn't mean good prosthodontics. Making a crown on it would be a tragedy.

[noahaxeltiger]

it s a shame to put an implant in that position

[hshwang]

good luck to the prosthodontist restoring that implant

[RobertGougaloff]

The implant is actually a specialized implant designed specifically for this procedure. It is a finned (not threaded) Tatum "D" shaped implant. It is flat on its "palatal" side and D-shaped on the facial side. The reason of the bone graft at the time of placement is the depth of the fins of the implant. We wanted to assure that there is plenty of graft in the fin space.

[shukhrahn]

Very cool technique with tapping the 15. Seems like the ideal way to preserve crestal bone, beating even a piezo.

What type of implant? I noticed you tapped in a threaded fixture, and added bone at the crestal of the fixture before placement. What are the advantages of this technique vs. driving a fixture in and then adding the cadaver bone?