The Failure of Harvesting and Autologous Bone Grafts

1. When You Hear This Terminology?

This is the first question to ask. When could a patient hear the words "harvesting and autologous bone grafts"?

It happens exactly when, after a visit to a traditional dental centre and the analysis of CT and panoramic X-ray, the diagnosis delivers the verdict: you no longer have enough bone and the bone ridge is reduced to a thin or flat blade.

At that point, the doctor or traditional centre — anchored to the old idea of the alveolar bone — looks at you and says: "Dear patient, if you want a complete fixed rehabilitation, we have to perform autologous bone harvesting from your own body". And to do this, they propose hospitalisations, harvesting of bone blocks from the chin, from the mandibular ramus or even from the hip in the operating room, to then screw and graft them into your mouth hoping everything takes.

2. The Ordeal: What the Patient Really Goes Through

But meanwhile, while you accept this ordeal, have you ever asked yourself what they really do to you, what you are losing, how much pain you are enduring and how much money you are spending with zero guarantees?

• The physical suffering: You find yourself managing two surgical sites simultaneously (the donor area where they harvest the bone and the receiving area), with excruciating pain, enormous swelling, bruises and difficulty even walking or moving your mouth in the following days.
• The success rates and the risk of failure: The probability that the grafted bone will be partially resorbed or completely rejected by the body is by no means negligible. And if it fails? The patient finds himself empty-handed, with the biological damage and the frustration of having done everything for nothing.
• The economic and time costs: A very high financial investment, combined with months and months of waiting (often 6 to 9 months) without a real fixed stability, living in constant anxiety that the graft will fail under load.

3. The Startling Discovery: It Could Be Solved in 2 Hours

The underlying motivation that pushes you to accept this ordeal is noble: they make you believe that all this serves to give you a complete dental rehabilitation, with all the posterior molars, to guarantee strong, powerful and complete chewing.

But what would be the biggest surprise for you if you discovered that there is another way? That in reality a technique existed capable of sparing you all this pain and all these risks, achieving exactly the same goals (and even more) in an infinitely faster way?

Think about what happens to the grafted bone: the harvested and transplanted bone, subjected to the force of daily and repeated chewing over time, is highly vulnerable and tends to fail or resorb under load. How long does it really last?

4. How the Bilateral Sinus Solution™ Would Have Avoided All This

If that patient had been examined by a maxillofacial surgeon expert in human anatomy and dissection, included in our clinical network, the story would have been completely different from the first minute.

Here is how we would have treated exactly the same clinical situation using the Bilateral Sinus Solution™ (BSS):

• Zero harvesting and zero useless procedures: We would not have touched either your chin or your hip. No second surgical site, no donor area pain and no hospitalisation.
• The anchorage in the deep basal bone: Instead of losing months trying to reconstruct the alveolar bone that no longer exists, our specialists directly use the basal bone. By placing strategic implants and using very solid native pillars, we bypass every bone deficiency problem.
• The result in just 2 hours: The patient enters the clinic with the problem and, in just two hours, leaves with a solid fixed structure, ready to support complete and strong chewing, without endless waits.

The Circolare d'Autore® prosthesis

• 14 teeth per arch, including all posterior molars
• Zero fake gum: the teeth emerge from the natural gum
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• Custom-made: every prosthesis is a unique piece designed for the patient

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