Space Maintenance and Alveolar Bone Volume Preservation
Effective space maintenance and alveolar bone volume preservation achieved by the use of non-resorbable Endobon® Xenograft Granules
By
Jenny Park, PhD
Marie Pollard, DPhil
Hai Bo Ven, PhD
Xenografts of animal origin are commonly used as osteoconductive scaffolds to reconstruct human alveolar bone defects. Depending on the manufacturer’s processing technique, commercially available xenografts possess different characteristics, such as surface morphology, crystallinity and resorption rates, which can influence adhesion and growth of osteogenic cells, and subsequent new bone formation. Safe and uneventful healing with the use of xenografts is achieved through processes that render the organic animal material nonantigenic...
