Michael A. Pikos, DDS
Dentist | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
2711 Tampa Rd Palm Harbor FL, 34684About
Dr. Michael Pikos is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon practicing in Palm Harbor, FL. Dr. Pikos specializes in the treatment of problems related to the face, mouth and jaws. As an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Dr. Pikos is a unique dental specialist who can provide emergency medicine, perform general surgery and give anesthesia. These medical doctors are the only type of medical care specialist who can administer anesthesia, besides anesthesiologists. Typical procedures performed by Dr. Pikos are tooth extractions, especially wisdom teeth, corrective jaw surgery, cleft palate surgery and reconstructive surgery after an injury. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons can also perform dental work including placing dental implants. These surgeons might also deal with conditions of sleep apnea, oral cancers and more.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Maxillary sinus membrane repair: report of a technique for large perforations.
- Block autografts for localized ridge augmentation: Part I. The posterior maxilla.
- Alveolar ridge augmentation with ramus buccal shelf autografts and impacted third molar removal.
- Alveolar ridge augmentation using mandibular block grafts: clinical update.
- Block autografts for localized ridge augmentation: Part II. The posterior mandible.
- Guided bone regeneration and sinus augmentation in the absence of autogenous bone grafting.
- Buccolingual expansion of the maxillary ridge.
- Atrophic posterior mandibular reconstruction utilizing mandibular block autografts: risk management.
- Mandibular block autografts for alveolar ridge augmentation.
- Atrophic posterior maxilla and mandible: alveolar ridge reconstruction with mandibular block autografts.
- Implant success, survival, and failure: the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) Pisa Consensus Conference.
- Maxillary sinus membrane repair: update on technique for large and complete perforations.
- Effect of rhBMP-2 upon maxillary sinus augmentation: a comprehensive review.
- De novo bone regeneration in human extraction sites using recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2/ACS: a clinical, histomorphometric, densitometric, and 3-dimensional cone-beam computerized tomographic scan evaluation.
- On the feasibility of utilizing allogeneic bone blocks for atrophic maxillary augmentation.
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