Status of the alveolar bone after autotransplantation of developing premolars to the anterior maxilla assessed by CBCT measurements.
Pawel PlakwiczJens Ove AndreasenRenata GórskaTomasz BurzykowskiEwa CzochrowskaPublished in: Dental traumatology : official publication of International Association for Dental Traumatology (2021)
The mean values of bone thickness, width and height of the alveolar process at sites of transplanted premolars were comparable to the mean values for the control incisors. Successful autotransplantation of developing premolars to replace missing central incisors allowed preservation of alveolar bone in the anterior maxilla.