ARTICLE: Collagen membranes in regenerative dental medicine
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] Guided tissue and guided bone regeneration (GTR, GBR) are well-established techniques in dentistry to augment lost tissue around teeth and dental implants respectively (Nyman et al. 1980, Karing et al. 1980, Nyman et al. 1982, Dahlin et al. 1988). The basic principle of these methods is the placement of a barrier membrane between the soft tissue and residual bone in order to prevent the fast-proliferating epithelial cells from populating the bony defect and to provide space and time for the migration of slow-dividing osteogenic or periodontal ligament cells into the defect area. Dr. Sascha Böhm and Dr. Sandra Wrobel, Scientific Product Managers at botiss biomaterials, Berlin/Germany. In the course of the evolution of GTR and GBR techniques, different types of membranes have been developed. Today, commercially available barrier membranes for GTR or GBR procedures can be divided into either non-resorbable or resorbable membranes. Non-resorbable membranes,...