Reimplantation of freeze-treated and saline-treated mandibular bone.
Mandibular bone devitalized by freezing after removal from the body and subsequently reimplanted was observed for its potential to reunite and grow in comparison to a similar saline-treated section of bone from the same animal. After a year, there were no significant discernible clinical or histological differences between the slaine-treated and the frozen bone. Approximately the same amount of histologically indistinguishable bone formed in either instance. The results suggest that a partially resected mandible subjected to freezing maintains the same capacity to act as an autogenous graft as does bone partially devitalized by immersion in saline solution.
D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D008334:Mandible / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery / Q000637:transplantation*; D010027:Osteotomy; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014945:Wound Healing
D012965:Sodium Chloride