Tissue expanders for augmentation

Sun, 04/26/2009 - 10:50 — Perioplasticsurgeon

Tissue expanders for augmentation???? Can you be more specific

Dear RBWAG

Can you be a little more specific on what you are looking for? Are you refering to balloon sinus lift technique (osseous technologies) or ridge expanders (MIS, BTI etc)?

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Fri, 05/08/2009 - 13:12 — rbwag

ridge expanders.

Small balloons were placed intraorally to expand the oral mucosa so that bone grafts could be placed to augment a ridge vertically.

Any one know who might be making these balloons

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Fri, 05/08/2009 - 13:15 — implantdoc

Interesting...never heard of this.

Heard of balloons for sinus lifts, but not in the context of oral mucosa expansion.

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Sun, 05/10/2009 - 21:59 — rbwag

soft tissue expanders.

May moons ago this technique was used but fell out of favor.

I am proposing to expand the soft tissue and place an BMP sponge or Stem cell bone graft into the buccal balloon effect to allow for ridge augmentation without having to coronally reposition the intra-oral tissues nor use a membrane.

Does anyone know who might still make these balloons?