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Regenerating Bone to Anchor Implants
The team followed up with a presentation in April to the
American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, and a
manuscript will be submitted for publication. Gonzalez reports
the new procedure has been met with much interest from professional colleagues.
“It’s exciting because patients can finally have an alternative,”
Gonzalez says. “Instead of going to the operating room and taking bone from the jaw or hip, we can recreate bone and be able
to place implants, and patients can look natural and have complete function.
Carolyn Cox is publications manager at Texas A&M University Baylor College
of Dentistry, where she has been employed for 25 years. A 1986 journalism
graduate of Texas Christian University, she resides in Lewisville, Texas.
Founded in 1905, Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas
is a college of the Texas A&M Health Science Center. TAMBCD is a nationally
recognized center for oral health sciences education, research, specialized
patient care and continuing dental education.
“We had a four-year follow up on the first patient treated with
this procedure, and he is doing great in terms of bone, implants
and crown stability.”
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