The major advantage of SR PET lies in the detection of additional bone lesions.
Post-extraction maintenance of the alveolar ridge following the principles of ridge preservation using bone graft substitutes minimizes ridge resorption and, thus, facilitate subsequent placement of an implant that satisfies esthetic and functional criteria, limiting the need of additional bone augmentation procedures [4 8].
The participating surgeons agreed to aim for the best possible stabilization in each patient with each technique, including the use of additional K-wires, bone graft, or bone substitute.
Further, calcitriol in combination with other therapeutic bone agents was shown to be well tolerated and capable of additional bone-preserving effects compared with use of calcitriol alone in areas including bone mineral density, bone turnover markers, bone pain improvement, and fracture incidence.
It was concluded that a collagen/calcium phosphate scaffold can mediate transfection without the use of additional transfection vectors and can promote bone formation in a mouse model via the delivery of pVEGF165.
Given the technological advancement in bone scintigraphy, clinicians and health care provider's objectives are to highlight diagnostic confidence thus limiting the use of additional imagery.
In 12 out of 30 cases, additional bone grafting (iliac crest autograft and/or allograft) was used.
Surgeons therefore should consider using this technique in order to minimize the use of bone substitutes without additional harvesting morbidity.
These benefit from the additional use of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, but these cells exhibit an age-related decline in lifespan, proliferation and osteogenic potential.
However, existing studies vary in different aspects, such as additional use of bone compaction [ 2, 3], the used BPs [ 7, 27, 28], the experimental model [ 14, 20, 30, 38], animal species [ 2, 7, 30] implants [ 2, 14, 20, 38] and application methods [ 7, 38- 40].
