Biological and biophysical principles in extracorporal bone tissue engineering. Part III.
Over the last decade extracorporal bone tissue engineering has moved from laboratory to clinical application. The restoration of maxillofacial bones from cell harvesting through product manufacture and end-use has benefited from innovations in the fields of biomechanical engineering, product marketing and transplant research. Cell/scaffold bone substitutes face a variety of unique clinical challenges which must be addressed. This overview summarises the recent state of the art and future anticipations in the transplantation of extracorporally fabricated bone tissues.
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Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Münster, Munster, Germany. ulmeyer@uni-muenster.de
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D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000166:cytology* / Q000276:immunology; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D010006:Osteoblasts / Q000276:immunology / Q000637:transplantation; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D023822:Tissue Engineering