Pre-Prosthetic Surgery

Question 1

What types of soft tissue pre-prosthetic surgery can be carried out?

Answer 1

Excisional
Ridge extension procedures
Augmentation procedures

Question 2

What types of excisional soft tissue pre-prosthetic surgery can be carried out?

Answer 2

Frenectomy/Frenoplasty
Papillary hyperplasia
Flabby ridges reduction
Maxillary tuberosity reduction
Retromolar pad reduction

Question 3

What types of ridge extension procedures are carried out for pre-prosthetic surgery?

Answer 3

Vestibuloplasty (deepends the sulcus)
-maxillary or mandibular

Question 4

What types of augmentation procedures of soft tissues are carried out for pre-prosthetic surgery?

Answer 4

Soft tissue grafting (increase the size of the soft tissue)

Question 5

What types of hard tissue pre-prosthetic surgery can be carried out?

Answer 5

Excisional
Augmentation procedures

Question 6

What kinds of hard tissue excisional pre-prosthetic surgeries can be carried out?

Answer 6

Removal of retained teeth/roots/pathology
Ridge defect correction (alveoplasty)
Mandibular tori
Maxillary tori
Maxillary tuberosity
Exostoses
Undercuts- if they are to excessive
Mylohyoid ridge reduction
Genial tubercle reduction
–usually far beneath surface but in edentulous patients if enough resorption has occurred then these can be prominent

Question 7

What kinds of hard tissue augmentation procedures can be carried out for pre-prosthetic surgery?

Answer 7

Autografts (bone taken from patient themselves)
Allografts (bone from other humans)
Xenografts (from animals)
Synthetic grafts