{"id":14586,"date":"2021-09-10T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=14586"},"modified":"2024-06-26T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:03:20","slug":"cell-based-regenerative-therapies-for-maxillofacial-bone-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/cell-based-regenerative-therapies-for-maxillofacial-bone-defects\/14586\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell-based regenerative therapies for maxillofacial bone defects"},"content":{"rendered":"
Although bone has a great regenerative capacity, up to 10% of defects cannot heal without intervention. As a result, millions of surgeries are performed to restore bone defects each year. These defects can have a congenital, traumatic, infectious, or oncological cause. For over a century, the gold standard clinical procedure in orthopaedic<\/a> and maxillofacial surgery to restore such defects has been the transplantation of bone harvested from elsewhere in the patient. This leads to the creation of a second surgical site for the patient, which is often associated with complications such as donor site morbidity and pain, as well as an extended duration of hospitalisation.<\/p>\n To overcome the additional burden on both the patient and society, various alternatives have been proposed over the years, but none have shown the potential to become the new clinical standard.<\/p>\n Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering are fields that have been addressing this demand for bone substitutes in recent decades. Classical approaches aimed to mimic intramembranous (direct) ossification by utilising biomaterials, e.g., those that resemble the bone\u2019s inorganic calcium phosphate component (hydroxyapatite), either alone or in combination with stem cells from the mesenchymal lineage (multipotent mesenchymal stem or stromal cells \u2013 MSCs \u2013 are typically isolated from the bone marrow and used in bone regeneration). Though effective to some extent, regeneration of large defects is still beyond our reach.<\/p>\nEndochondral ossification<\/h3>\n