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General Category => General Chat => Topic started by: molestrip on December 12, 2016, 02:22:21 PM
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An Israeli company recently announced (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bonus-biogroup-transplant-idUSKBN13U1R2) success where they injected bioractor grow autologous bone grafts into the jaws of a few patients in the maxillofacial region. Here's the website (http://www.bonus-bio.com/index.php/products/bonofill) describing the product.
A product like this certainly looks great for grafting osteotomy defects. I wonder whether it might also be useful in non-invasive facial augmentation, particularly in the infraorbital region under the eye which is hard to hit surgically and causes the dreaded eye bags a lot of us get early. I don't know if there might be some fundamental limitations, I don't see how an augmentation would be added under a soft tissue attachment point for example. For those we'd need a treatment that stimulates growth of existing bone. Like re-opening the sutures closed from childhood.
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This looks really interesting. At the very least it can be added to bony areas that might have trouble fusing together.