Three important terms are used when describing bone grafts and bone graft substitutes. An understanding of these three terms (osteogenesis, osteoconduction, and osteoinduction) is an esse ...

In the United States, bone graft substitutes may be regulated and approved in different manners depending on specific characteristics of the product. Varying levels of safety and efficacy ...

Blood management in orthopedic surgery today consists of allogenic transfusions, autologous blood, intra- and postoperative blood salvage, and erythropoietin alpha.1 In my experience, in ...

Bone repair following fracture has been divided into three main phases: the inflammatory phase, the reparative phase, and the remodeling phase. During the inflammatory phase prostaglandin ...

Evidence-Based Approach to the Evaluation of Tissue Engineering in Orthopedic Surgery

The commercial availability of recombinant human bone morphogenetic proteins (rhBMP) has introduced a new health care expense. The relatively high cost of this product has raised economic concerns ...

Platelet Gels

The mainstay of postoperative analgesia for moderate or severe orthopedic procedures is oral or intravenous opioids. However, although opioids provide potent analgesia, they also cause side effects ...

Osteoconductive Bone Graft Substitutes in Orthopedic Trauma

Marrow Cells