Articles

For dental professionals: bone graft materials, extraction sockets, healing time and regulation. Written to be checked; every article lists its sources.

Vol. 1Since October 2026Sources listed with every article

Latest article

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Regulation

Reading a bone graft’s registration: what HSA notification and Indonesian izin edar mean
October 9, 2026

Human-tissue grafts in Singapore are notified to HSA as Class 1 CTGTP; in Indonesia every imported device needs an izin edar. What each means, how to check it, and what it does not tell you.

Contents

Every article in this volume, in order of publication.

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Bone graft materials

Bone graft materials in dentistry: autograft, allograft, xenograft, alloplast and tooth-derived
October 9, 2026

How the literature defines the five material categories, the three biological properties used to compare them, and what systematic reviews of ridge preservation found when they compared categories.

AI-generated illustration: a cut-away drawing of a block of porous bone with a tapered socket filled with small white granules, and a red pointer line touching the granules. Schematic; not an anatomical or clinical image.

Clinical practice

Socket preservation after extraction: what the evidence supports
October 9, 2026

Ridge preservation reduces post-extraction bone loss in most trials, but the certainty of evidence and the long-term benefit are debated. A summary of the reviews and the consensus timing guidance.

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Tooth-derived grafts

Tooth-derived bone grafts explained: what the autogenous dentin studies show
October 9, 2026

Two meta-analyses of autogenous dentin grafts in ridge preservation, how dentin grafts are classified, and why results from a patient's own tooth cannot be read across to a manufactured product.

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Clinical practice

Healing time after bone grafting: reading the AmGraft IFU’s six-month minimum
October 9, 2026

The AmGraft IFU recommends at least six months of healing at the augmented site. How that sits beside general ridge-preservation guidance, and what the IFU leaves to the practitioner.

AI-generated image: a cream document folder with an embossed seal and a red ribbon bookmark, a sealed pouch with a blank white label, and a wooden rubber stamp on a navy surface. Illustrative only; no real registration document is shown.

Regulation

Reading a bone graft’s registration: what HSA notification and Indonesian izin edar mean
October 9, 2026

Human-tissue grafts in Singapore are notified to HSA as Class 1 CTGTP; in Indonesia every imported device needs an izin edar. What each means, how to check it, and what...

How these articles are written

  1. Factual statements carry numbered references, listed in full at the end.

  2. Animal and cell-culture findings are labelled as such and never presented as clinical results.

  3. Where the evidence is thin or does not transfer, the article says so.

  4. Anything said about AmGraft® follows its Instructions for Use (2022-06).