“Soft tissue substitutes, sometimes for some specific circumstances, work as well as our patient’s own tissue.”
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“The patient is in the center… we are actually talking about customized scaffolds that can be used for more advanced defects.”
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“Basically, the evidence is there and very promising. We need more randomized controlled trials, but initial data show they [biologics] are safe, they are a good approach, and they may offer a promising future in terms of how we correct these defects.”
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“We are focusing on what we can add in terms of new technologies to make the current alternatives work better, improve our predictability, and perhaps overcome some of the barriers we have with current therapies, mainly in large bone defects.”
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“One of the exciting aspects is using AI-enabled technologies that can really help identify the characteristics of how the defects are shaped in the patient's mouth… and then these particular scaffolds or replacements can be designed that fit very closely to the patient's architecture of the defects.”
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“The two major areas we covered and the most exciting areas are personalised scaffolds and emerging technologies.”
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