Perspectives in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering of bone.

Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg

School of Clinical Medicine, MRC/University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical School 2193 Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Published: October 2011

This final review in a series of three focuses on how the advances made in the realm of molecular and cellular bone biology have been translated into experimental animal and human surgery.

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