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New Aspects in Osteoinduction
Author(s) -
Stoll T.,
Maissen O.,
Meury T.,
Becker S.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
materialwissenschaft und werkstofftechnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1521-4052
pISSN - 0933-5137
DOI - 10.1002/mawe.200400738
Subject(s) - cancellous bone , biomedical engineering , bone marrow , platelet rich plasma , bone grafting , dentistry , bone healing , bone marrow aspirate , chemistry , platelet , materials science , medicine , surgery , pathology
Bone grafting is a widely used procedure to treat bone defects. Various synthetic bone substitutes are gaining upon autologous cancellous bone, which is still the most effective graft material, despite the associated morbidity at the harvesting site. The lack of osteoinductive or osteogenic properties limits the success of those materials compared to autograft. One approach to enhance their biological behaviour is the addition of blood or bone marrow derived cellular material. Both platelet rich plasma (PRP) and fresh bone marrow (BM) have been reported to enhance bone formation clinically. The aim of this work was to evaluate in a pilot study the osteogenic potential of autologous substances like blood and bone marrow processed intra‐operatively in order to be impregnated on a synthetic ceramic bone substitute.