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Bone grafting is a big business |
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By: nourani Date: April 22, 2015, 12:08 pm |
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Bone grafting is a big business |
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, generating sales of more than $2.5 billion a year.1 Of the |
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more than 3 million musculoskeletal procedures done annually in |
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the United States, about half involve bone grafting with either |
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an autograft or an allograft.2 Worldwide, autografts or |
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allografts are used in approximately 2.2 million orthopaedic |
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procedures annually3. |
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References: |
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Desai BM: Osteobiologics. Am J Orthop 2007;36:8-11. |
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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: |
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ttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/tissueTransplantsFAQ.html#d |
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Giannoudis PV, Dinopoulos H, Tsiridis E: Bone substitutes: An |
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update. Injury 2005Nov;36: S20-S27. |
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