When The Patient Knows More Than The Dentist
“I want to have an iliac graft to compensate for the lost bone in my maxilla, so that I can insert dental implants...”
This was one of the strangest requests I had ever heard from a patient, who is neither a doctor, nor involved in any relevant medical field, but an avid reader and an internet addict. Her search through cyber space has led her to review some of my cases I performed years ago. Led by her passion for details, she came to decide that her problem lay in the inability of the jaw bone to reform, and that getting a graft from the iliac bone would solve her dilemma, which according to her, no doctor could have resolve.
