Because you deserve the best
The body’s own bone, particularly in the oral and maxillofacial region, has an incredible healing potential. How else could baby teeth fall out and permanent teeth grow from the jaw without bone defects? A normally extracted permanent tooth leaves behind a socket (alveolus) that fills with blood. Within six weeks, this blood transforms into woven bone, which over the following six weeks is penetrated by local bone and begins to incorporate calcium.
Up to this point, no bone substitutes are needed at all. Yet some practitioners already fill these sockets with artificial bone and charge their patients accordingly. In cases of poor healing, the use of platelet-rich fibrin is indicated, a substance that is also provided entirely by the patient’s own body.
Surgical support for the bone may be necessary if it has been damaged by an infection from the extracted tooth. Help can be provided directly at the time of extraction by repairing damaged walls with tiny bone fragments (usually about half the size of a small fingernail). Even repairing just the wall is sufficient to initiate the regeneration described above.
Of course, large bone defects exist that require more extensive measures and should be treated by an experienced surgeon regardless.
So why not seek out a practitioner who works with the patient’s own bone from the start?
Because it helps David against Goliath
The range of artificial bone products on the market is remarkably vast. Individual patients have often come away with the impression that using their own bone is just one more option among many. In reality, in most cases - particularly in implant surgery and the bone reconstruction it requires - their own bone is all that is needed.
Patients are inadequately informed about this option, because the industry has no interest in promoting it, and surgeons who work with the patient’s own bone have no comparable marketing resources at their disposal. The industry has no interest because there is virtually no profit to be made from using a patient’s own bone.
Because it lets ethical values shine
Patients are further unsettled by practitioners with limited surgical experience. They are led to believe that using the patient’s own bone makes the procedure more extensive and more painful. If these practitioners truly had the patient’s best interests at heart, they would refer them to a surgeon in the first place and step back from treating the patient themselves. This would spare many patients unnecessary pain and enable faster healing.
The use of artificial bone is also widespread because inexperienced practitioners apply it in situations where no bone would be needed at all - yet it can still be billed effectively. These are precisely the cases that create the illusion of artificial bone’s success, as it appears to integrate without problems. A large proportion of industry-funded studies operate in exactly this way.
In truth, these cases constitute bodily harm, because performing an unnecessary operation is unethical. Moreover, some of these patients develop health complaints as a result of their body’s reaction to the artificial bone.
Nevertheless, the profitable use of artificial bone has also led many surgeons to adopt it for its quick and lucrative billing potential.
Because it makes the good guys visible and helps you find them
The Own Bone Seal is designed to support surgeons who want to give their patients only the best: as little surgery as possible with as much success as possible. The best operation is still no operation at all.
The Own Bone Seal allows any practitioner to signal with a simple mark that they completely abstain from artificial bone and use only the patient’s own bone.
We are also grateful to all colleagues who wish to support us in presenting the above in a more patient-friendly way. Please send us alternative texts and scientific studies by email.
The Own Bone Seal makes it easy for patients to identify and find practitioners who work exclusively with their own bone.