Sinus Lift Tissue Engineering Using Autologous Pulp Micro-grafts: A Case Report of Bone Density Evaluation

Overview

Journal J Indian Soc Periodontol

Date 2013 Nov 1

PMID 24174760

Citations 25

Authors

Giorgio Brunelli

Alessandro Motroni

Antonio Graziano

Riccardo DAquino

Ilaria Zollino

Francesco Carinci

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Abstract

Background: Although autografts are the standard procedure for bone grafting, the use of bone regeneration by means of dental pulp stem cell is an alternative that opens a new era in this field. Rigenera Protocol is a new technique able to provide the surgeon autologous pulp micro-grafts.

Materials And Methods: At the Department of Oral Surgery, Don Orione Hospital, Bergamo, Italy, one patient underwent sinus lift elevation with pulp stem micro-grafts gentle poured onto collagen sponge. A CT scan control was performed after 4 months and DICOM data were processed with medical imaging software which gives the possibility to use a virtual probe to extract the bone density. Pearson's Chi-square test was used to investigate difference in bone density (BD) between native and newly formed bone.

Results: BD in newly formed bone is about the double of native bone.

Conclusion: This report demonstrated that micro-grafts derived from dental pulp poured onto collagen sponge are a useful method for bone regeneration in atrophic maxilla.

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