Bone Building

Building Bone is no easy task. Any defect that is outside the contour of the ridge is very challenging to augment back to a normal width and height. Many techniques have been formulated using donor bone from cow bone and human cadaver bone. These techniques have not been as predictable as we would like them to be from a surgeon's perspective. Using autogenous grafting, or bone from the person is much more predictable and has a lower risk of adverse biological outcomes.

The biological bone augmentation concept (BBA Concept) involves block harvesting the patient's bone from the lateral border of the posterior mandible. When regenerative capacity is lower this may be essential to secure a successful result. All other bone substitutes are no match for autologous or the patient’s bone. This allows us to repair defects and augment the bone with the most predictable biological grafting material, again coming from…. YOU. Dr. Popp has had extensive training in the process from the Khoury Plate technique to the Frank Zastro Semilunar techniques.