Soft Tissue Expanders for Ridge Augmentation: A Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/mlu.v20i4.2178Keywords:
Ridge Augmentation, Soft tissue Expanders, ImplantAbstract
Aesthetics in dentistry is one of the great concern for dental professionals as well as patients for maintenance
of oral health. Missing tooth is the common esthetic problems in the patients which can be due to various
periodontal or endodontic reasons. There are different treatment options available for replacing the missing
tooth and the best alternative treatment is replacement using dental implants. Very often, placement of dental
implants gets compromised when there is insufficient ridge or ridge defect. So when there is a ridge defect
we need to definitely augment the ridge for the successful placement of dental implants. This article gives a
short review about the tissue expanders used for ridge augmentation and their clinical efficiency of achieving
a proper ridge morphology.