Abstract: Missing teeth usually cause alveolar bone absorption, manifest as the decrease of the alveolar height and width, hinder the operating of dental implant, and affect the denture and chewing function recovery. Reliable technologies are adopted to repair alveolar ridge, in order to make sure successful dental implant and meet the basic requirements for implant. In this paper, the researches on solving lack of bone mass in dental implant were reviewed.

Key words: Dental implant, Lack of bone mass, Distraction osteogenesis, Bone tissue engineering