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The State of the Art of Tissue Engineering – Bone

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1. Introduction………………………………………………….……………………………………………3

2. Bone Grafts and Bone Graft Substitutes…….……………………………………………4

3. Bone Biology……………………………………………………………………………………………..4

4. Tissue engineering…………………………………………………………………………………..5
� 4.1. Ideal Scaffold
� 4.2. Growth factors
� 4.3. Stem cells
5. Future remarks/Conclusion………………………………………………………………………7

6. Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………………………..8

1. Introductions
In the U.S. and E.U alone, bone fractures results in more than 2.4 million surgical procedures a year. Currently,......

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