A sinus lift, also called maxillary sinus floor augmentation, is a surgical procedure that increases the amount of bone in the upper back jaw by lifting the floor of the maxillary sinus and the membrane lining it, then packing the resulting space with bone graft material. The technique was pioneered by Hilt Tatum in 1974, with the first published reports appearing in 1980. It is most often performed to create enough bone to support a dental implant, achieves long-term success in more than 90 percent of cases, and typically requires three to six months of healing before or alongside implant placement.
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Can a sinus lift be done without opening a window in the side of the jaw?
Yes. A transalveolar approach, developed in 1986 to reduce pain and suffering after surgery, works from the ridge instead of a side window.
Yes. The first sinus lift procedures worked through a lateral window, through which the membrane of the sinus was dissected and elevated and bone was placed before the implant followed months later. A review of platelet-derived materials in sinus augmentation reports that in 1986 Tatum Jr. developed the transalveolar sinus floor elevation to minimize pain and suffering after surgery, and that Summers modified this approach in 1994 with an osteotomy technique that used no grafting material even where the remaining bone height was thin. The review places the first sinus lift in 1976, which differs from the 1974 date given elsewhere, so the exact year of the original procedure is reported differently by different sources.
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Maxillary sinus floor augmentation (also known as a sinus lift, sinus graft, or sinus augmentation) is a surgical procedure that increases the amount of bone in the posterior maxilla by lifting the Schneiderian membrane and placing a bone graft.
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The sinus lift was pioneered by Hilt Tatum in 1974 (Opelika, Alabama).
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