Book excerpt: 1.- Introduction. -- 2.- Surgical setup and patient preparation. -- 3.- Membranes and graf materials. -- 4.- The intraoral harvesting of autogenous bone. -- 5.- The surgical anatomy of the floor of the mouth. -- 6.- Principles of vertical and horizontal ridge augmentation in the posterior mandible. -- 7.- Vertical ridge augmentation. -- 8.- Vertical ridge augmentation in the posterior mandible. -- 9.- Anterior mandibular ridge augmentation. -- 10.- Combined posterior maxillary and ridge augmentation for partially edentulous patients. -- 11.- Horizontal ridge augmentation : the sausage technique. -- 12.- Ridge augmentation in the anterior maxilla. -- 13.- Papilla reconstruction in conjunction with vertical augmentation in single tooth defects. -- 14.- Surgical management of significant anterior maxillary vertical ridge defects: the classification of anterior maxillary vertical defects. -- 15.- lateralization of the nasopalatine nerve: the palatal flap. -- 16.- Mucogingival surgery after bone augmentation. -- 17.- New perspectives in mucogingival surgery after ridge augmentation. -- 18.- New perspectives in crestal bone preservation after ridge augmentation. -- 19.- The development and maintenance of a positive gingival architecture using single implants in multiple missing teeth. -- 20.- Reconstruction of the edentulous resorbed maxilla. -- 21.- Complications of bone ridge augmentation. -- 22.- The use of grow factors.