The mechanisms of peri-implant de novo bone formation and contact osteogenesis are still largely unknown. In 1984 Donath et al. showed that macrophages were the first cells to colonize a titanium implant. Recently it was shown that that there are inflammatory (M1) and healing macrophages (M2), the latter of which can secrete BMP 2. In the context of data from a gap healing experiment a macrophage model of osseointegration is suggested.
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Jennissen, H. P. (2016). A macrophage model of osseointegration. In Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering (Vol. 2, pp. 53–56). Walter de Gruyter GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2016-0015
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