PubMed · 10321217
Bone and bone substitutes.
Abstract
Bone replacement grafts will play a continuing role in periodontal and other regenerative therapy. Several choices are available to the clinician including autogenous, allogeneic, xenogeneic and a variety of alloplastic materials. Except for fresh autogenous bone, bone replacement graft(s) do not provide the cellular elements necessary for osteogenesis nor can they reliably be considered truly osteoinductive, but instead are mostly osteoconductive, providing a scaffold for bone deposition. Currently, significant decrease in clinical probing depth and gain of clinical attachment have been reported following use of bone replacement grafts when compared to flap debridement surgery alone for periodontal osseous defects. Reported differences among bone replacement grafts (autogenous, allogeneic, xenogeneic, and alloplastic) occur with respect to histological outcomes. Overall, probing depth reduction, attachment level gain and degree of defect fill are similar for all bone replacement grafts.
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H F Nasr, M E Aichelmann-Reidy, R A Yukna. 1999. Bone and bone substitutes.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0757.1999.tb00148.x
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