Use of Cowry shells in Dental and Orthopedic Medicine: An alternate bone grafting procedure |

Use of Cowry shells in Dental and Orthopedic Medicine: An alternate bone grafting procedure

April 2nd, 2014 |

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Use of Cowry shells in Dental and Orthopedic Medicine: An alternate bone grafting procedure

Every year, over one million people in the U.S require bone graft procedures, particularly jaw bone replacement,and other 500,000 patients require dental implants worldwide. Most of these implants are made from titanium based alloy, or alloys made from cobalt and chromium. However, these materials fail due to inflammatory responses, and regular dental replacement surgeries are performed to replace these failed implants. To address this problem, dentists resorted to the use of the patie