The OsteoGen Plug: One-step bone grafting solution for socket preservation without a membrane

The bioactive calcium phosphate crystals and crystal clusters combined with collagen create a hydrophilic structure that mimics the composition of physiologic bone. The result is a bone graft combined with a collagen plug for ease of clinical delivery — all at less than $50 per extraction.

The OsteoGen graft production process yields a resorbable bone graft with a unique calcium to phosphate ratio that is neither a ß-TCP, a non-resorbable dense ceramic HA nor is it a biphasic mixture of the two. It is a unique low-density calcium phosphate graft that is resorbable.

The Bovine Achilles Tendon collagen carries the bone graft for easy and efficient delivery to the site, eliminating the hassle and time spent mixing and packing particulate bone grafts, while also eliminating the potential for graft wash out. The Type I collagen acts as a wound dressing not only to stabilize the clot but also to absorb and deliver blood flow to the slowly resorbing graft, a feature critical for the initiation of bone formation and early angiogenesis.

The collagen found in the OsteoGen Plug provides a scaffold for keratinized tissue to develop over the grafted site. To prepare the socket, entirely remove the infected periodontal ligament, flush out and repeat. Make holes or partially remove lamina dura to the alveolar process to initiate blood flow and trigger the regional acceleratory phenomenon.

Taper the plug apically, deliver dry into socket and let it soak up blood. Compact the plug to make a membrane and condense to 1 mm below soft tissue crestally and crisscross the suture over the top, not through the plug.

The low-density nature of the OsteoGen graft means that the OsteoGen Plug will show radiolucent on the day of placement and radiopaque in four to five months as the graft turns over, depending on the specific patient.  This transition from radiolucent to radiopaque is a key indicator of bone turnover. At that point, the plug has been replaced with host bone and is ready for implant.

Impladent offers three sizes of OsteoGen Bone Grafting Plugs: large (10 mm in diameter by 20 mm in length), slim (6 mm in diameter by 25 mm in length) and extra large (15 mm diameter by 20 mm in length).  The large and slim plugs are sold in boxes of 10 for $499 or boxes of 5 for $279.

Call (800) 526-9343 or visit www.impladentltd.com for more information.

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