Main description:

This collection of articles by leading orthopedic and craniofacial surgeons and researchers comprehensively reviews the biology of bone formation and repair, the basic science of autologous bone graft, allograft, bone substitutes, and growth factors, and explore their clinical application in patients with bone repair problems.

Contents:

Bone Dynamics: Morphogenesis, Growth Modeling, and Remodeling
Jeffrey O. Hollinger

Fracture Repair
Charles Sfeir, Lawrence Ho, Bruce A. Doll, Kodi Azari, and Jeffrey O. Hollinger

Common Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Fetal Bone Formation and Adult Fracture Repair
Theodore Miclau, Richard A. Schneider, B. Frank Eames, and Jill A. Helms

Biology of Bone Grafts
Victor M. Goldberg and Sam Akhavan

Cell-Based Strategies for Bone Regeneration: From Developmental Biology to Clinical Therapy
Scott P. Bruder and Tony Scaduto

Biology of the Vascularized Fibular Graft
Elizabeth Joneschild and James R. Urbaniak

Growth Factor Regulation of Osteogenesis
Stephen B. Trippel

Grafts and Bone Graft Substitutes
Doug Sutherland and Mathias Bostrom

Gene Transfer Approaches to Enhancing Bone Healing
Oliver Betz, Mark Vrahas, Axel Baltzer, Jay R. Lieberman, Paul D. Robbins, and Christopher H. Evans

Bone Morphogenic Proteins and Other Growth Factors to Enhance Fracture Healing and Treatment of Nonunions
Calin S. Moucha and Thomas A. Einhorn

The Ilizarov Technique for Bone Regeneration and Repair
James Aronson

Biology of Spinal Fusion: Biology and Clinical Applications
K. Craig Boatright and Scott D. Boden

Bone Allograft Transplantation: Theory and Practice
Henry J. Mankin, Francis J. Hornicek, Mark C. Gebhardt, and William W. Tomford

Bone Grafting for Total Joint Arthroplasty: Biology and Clinical Applications
Moussa Hamadouche, Daniel A. Oakes, and Daniel J. Berry

Biophysical Stimulation Using Electrical, Electromagnetic, and Ultrasonic Fields: Effects on Fracture Healing and Spinal Fusion
James T. Ryaby

Vascularized Fibula Grafts: Clinical Applications
Richard S. Gilbert and Scott W. Wolfe

Craniofacial Repair
Bruce A. Doll, Charles Sfeir, Kodi Azari, Sarah Holland, and Jeffrey O. Hollinger

Bone Regeneration Techniques in the Orofacial Region
Samuel E. Lynch

Index