title: Controlled bone regeneration: the ultimate process in bone repair.
abstract: The main goal of bone healing, besides the healing of the bone, is ensuring that the dynamic system of repair is under biologic control. To do so, the soft tissue has to be kept isolated to avoid any herniation into the bony defect, that would produce and interfere with the bone interface or collapse the original defect resulting in a relapse.
authors.affiliation: University of South Florida and Tampa Bay Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery Center, 33603-3301, USA. mbhabal@gte.net
authors.forename: Mutaz B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Habal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001861:Bone Regeneration / Q000502:physiology*; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D013698:Templates, Genetic