Barker et al. (9) used the bone obtained from the TM of a patient in order to increase the thickness of his upper jaw and allow the placement of implants, in order to replace the lateral incisors and absent canines
They determined that the TM provided a useful and local source of bone in procedures for increasing bone thickness.
Proussaefs (28) discusses three clinical cases in which he makes a clinical and histological evaluation of the use of mandibular tori as grafts in order to place implants, in which he obtained up to a 4.33 mm increase in thickness and an absorption rate similar to the grafts that are made with bone from other donor areas of the oral cavity.