A dental bone graft is a procedure performed to increase the amount of bone in a part of the jaw where bone has been lost or where additional support is needed. Bone may be taken from elsewhere in the ...

Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care being autografting, which uses the patient's own bone for tooth implantation and to repair and ...

Given drawbacks to autografting that include the need for additional surgery, longer recovery time, complication risks and the availability of larger amounts of bone, a team of researchers from the ...

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry are making progress in their efforts to create a better bone graft in the lab, despite autografting's disadvantages, which ...

Bacteriologist taking a bacterial culture from a Petri dish. Image: Tim Sandle Bacteriologist taking a bacterial culture from a Petri dish. Image: Tim Sandle Some 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures ...