Tissue Engineering in Orthopaedics

It is important to carefully select the most appropriate combination of scaffold, signals, and cell types when designing tissue engineering approaches for an orthopaedic pathology. Although clinical studies in which the tissue engineering paradigm has been applied in the treatment of orthopaedic diseases are limited in number, examining them can yield important lessons. While there is a rapid rate of new discoveries in the basic sciences, substantial regulatory, economic, and clinical issues must be overcome with more consistency to translate a greater number of technologies from the laboratory to the operating room.
Source: JBJS - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Basic Science Current Concepts Review Source Type: research