The role of facial skeletal augmentation
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Jerry W. Bains; James P. Elia
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Article
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1994
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Springer
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English
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Facial aging is almost exclusively a result of soft tissue changes in patients with full dentition. Loss of teeth can hasten facial aging and make aging more pronounced as a result of bony erosion of the alveolar ridges. This article describes these changes and demonstrates that properly selected or