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In the last two decades, biomaterials have become of great importance for medical practice. thus, biomatrials used for bone addition or bone augmentation are used not only in orthopedics or traumatology, but also in dental medicine, especially in oral implantology to repair some bone defects small or vast in scope.

The use of different types of materials for bone augmentation has generated lost of controversies regarding the formation of the new bone substrata. Starting with the autogen bone, continuing with ceramic, plastic masses and finishing with metals, all these materials lead to a process of ossification, and finally to a certain cure through distinct, but extremely laborious mechanism.