Highlights the application of distraction osteogenesis in repositioning of teeth. The paradigm in orthognathic surgery has shifted in a way that it is now possible to perform distraction osteogenesis in an outpatient basis. The principles and procedures involved in this cutting …
Various synthetic bone graft substitutes, demineralized bone matrix (DBM), bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), allogeneic bone cells, and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) currently are legally marketed bone graft substitutes; however, each of these products has a distinct regulator…
Xenotransplantation is defined as any procedure that involves the infusion or implantation into a human of nonhuman animal tissue. Current medical research is focusing on tissue substitutes for treatment of a wide variety of human diseases and complications. In orthopedic surger…
The field of medicine as a formal discipline has been traced by many to Imhotep and his descriptions of ailments and treatments found written on papyrus and translated in the mid-1800s by Edwin Smith. Among the medical descriptions included in Imhotep's writings are cervical dis…
