Upper jaw bilateral implants.

The patient is a 58-year-old male.

The implant placement is scheduled to be done on both sides of the maxilla (upper jaw).

On the left posterior region, a crestal approach implant was placed.

And on the right first premolar, which had severe periodontitis, we extracted it first.

After about 4 months of extraction, we are planning to place an implant in the right premolar area. Also, there is a defect in the alveolar bone in the area of tooth number 14.

In the area of tooth number 14, we first performed a simple bone healing using Bone Healing 503 to prepare for Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR).

After the allograft (bone graft from a different individual) transplantation, we covered it with a resorbable membrane.

The healing abutment was placed to serve as a support structure and facilitate the process.

It has been sutured.

 This is the post-surgery radiograph.

Q. After using the resorbable membrane, how did you fix it in place? I haven't had good results, so recently, I mainly use T-mesh.

A. For cases like this, it seems sufficient to place the membrane subperiosteally and simply suture it. The reason is that the bone healing abutment can serve as a tenting role.