Project Description
Posterior Socket Graft Case Study
- 3 weeks post extraction flap raised to show granulation tissue
- Site cleaned with EthOss® degranulation bur
- Grafted with EthOss® to ridge level
- Healed site 5 days later – sutures removed
- 12 weeks later healed site
- Core Sample being taken and sent for histological analysis – see results below
- Trephine with core – see results below
- Implant placed, Osstell meter used to measure stability, reading at 62 ISQ
- Ready to load at 10 weeks, healthy attached gingiva
- Osstell reading taken, now 75 ISQ
- Healed peri-implant soft tissue
- Loaded case
Radiograph:
- Radiograph of cleaned site
- Radiograph of grafted site
- Radiograph at 12 weeks
- Osteotomy in core site
- Radiograph of placed implant
- Radiograph of loaded case
Histology of core done by Hari Prasad, University of Minnesota.