“…Several regenerative surgical approaches have been proposed to prevent and/or reconstruct alveolar defects, most commonly, alveolar ridge/socket preservation (SP) following dental extraction (Avila‐Ortiz et al., ), vertical and horizontal ridge augmentation (RA) (Daugela, Cicciu, & Saulacic, ; Elnayef et al., , ), maxillary sinus‐floor augmentation (SA) (Danesh‐Sani et al., ), and alveolar cleft (AC) repair in the palatal aspect of the maxilla (Wu et al., ). All of these techniques mainly involve the use of autogenous bone (AB) grafts and/or bone substitute materials, and often in combination with barrier membranes, that is the guided bone regeneration (GBR) principle (Elgali, Omar, Dahlin, & Thomsen, ); in the case of more advanced (e.g., segmental) defects, vascularized tissue flaps are used (Hayden, Mullin, & Patel, ).…”