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Volume 31 , Issue 1
January/February 2011
Pages 67-73

Efficacy Evaluation of a New Buccal Bone Plate Preservation Technique: A Pilot Study

Federico Brugnami, DDS/Alfonso Caiazzo, DDS

PMID: 21365028
DOI: 10.11607/prd.00.0956

Twenty extraction sockets in 16 patients were included in this study. Ten were treated with buccal plate preservation (BPP, test group), which consisted of placing a bone graft overlying the buccal plate in a surgically created pouch, and 10 were left untreated (control). Pre- and postoperative differences in buccolingual dimension at the midpoint of the extraction area were calculated using study casts. Statistically significant differences were found between the test group (mean, 0.85 ± 0.75 mm) and control group (mean, 0.9 ± 0.65 mm, P < .5). Clinically, BPP after extraction may help to maintain or augment the soft tissue appearance compared to nontreatment. (Int J Periodontics Restorative Dent 2011;31:67–73.)

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