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Current State, Treatment Modalities, and Future Perspectives of Sinus Floor Elevation (SFE)

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Nowadays, more than half (54.2 %) of the implant rehabilitations in the edentulous posterior maxilla are involved with an SFE procedure prior to implant placement (Seong et al. 2013).

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Younes, R., Khoury, G., Nader, N. (2015). Current State, Treatment Modalities, and Future Perspectives of Sinus Floor Elevation (SFE). In: Younes, R., Nader, N., Khoury, G. (eds) Sinus Grafting Techniques. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11448-4_9

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