Potential use of mesenchymal stem cells and bio-oss® in surgery skull-Maxillo-facial: a review
The WHO (World report on road traffic injury prevention, 2002) predicts that by 2020 road accidents are the third leading cause of facial trauma in the world. Moreover, according to the Brazilian Association of organ transplantation, the number of bone transplants per million population reaches 450 (18,200 transplants). The lack of bone in the alveolar ridge has been a major problem in functional aesthetic recovery in patients who have suffered dentoalveolar trauma, traumatic dental extractions, dental congenital absence, disease involving the maxilla and mandibular.