Abstract:
The authors present the potential use of a hardening regenerative mineral cement in the treatment of bone defects complicated by peri-implantitis. The presented case concerns vertical alveolar ridge atrophy due to periapical inflammation of a tooth adjacent to an implant surface. Given the difficult clinical situation, the patient was consulted on the risk of regeneration, which was a priori associated with a high risk of failure. However, the use of biphasic calcium sulfate cement, to the author’s surprise, resulted in a spectacular restorative effect. Although this is an isolated case, the authors believe that the biological properties of the cement significantly contributed to this success, which, according to the authors, would have been impossible with allograft or xenogeneic bone in granular form and traditional guided bone regeneration techniques.
