Instead of directly stimulating osteogenesis, endowing an implant surface with a favourable osteoimmunomodulatory (OIM) function has emerged as new effective strategy to enhance osteointegration.

Distraction osteogenesis is increasingly used for bone lengthening of facial skeleton. Distractors may be intraoral and extraoral. The authors present development of distractors and their use for treatment of facial bones. Procedure may be used for treatment of malformations, syndroms, posttraumatic bone defects and deformities. The advantage of a distractor are a simple and fast procedure, sho...

statement of problem: it is not known whether endochondral and intramembranous bones have distinct biological characteristics. octacalcium phosphate (ocp), a hydroxyapatite precursor, has been reported to stimulate bone formation after being implanted in parietal bone defects of rats. purpose: the present study was designed to investigate the response of endochondral and intramembranous bones t...

osteogenesis imperfecta (oi) is a genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily, often from little or no apparent cause. in this article, we present a patient suffering from oi, who had concomitant active beh ç et’s disease(bd)with repeated oro-genital ulcers, skin postular eruptions and severe recurrent bilateral uveitis. this patient, is, to our knowledge the first reported case i...

bone tissue engineering has been one of the most promising areas of research, providing a potential clinical application to cure bone defects. recently, various stem cells, including embryonic stem cells (escs), bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (bm-mscs), umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ucb-mscs), adipose tissue-derived stem cells (adscs), muscle-derived stem cell...

objective: alveolar ridge preservation in patients with inadequate bone volume is one treatment option for successful implant placement and can be done by using bone graft materials. on the other hand, ceno bone has been recently produced by hamanand saz baft kish co. as a bone bioimplant of allograft origin. this study aimed to assess the clinical, histologic and histomorphometric results of b...