3 Reasons to Use the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of Bone Grafting Materials
For Dr. James Cope, GUIDOR easy-graft CLASSIC is a “Swiss army knife” when it comes to ridge preservation after extractions. It recently came to the rescue when treating a 45-year-old patient who presented with pain that kept him awake all night. After extracting the patient’s tooth No. 2, Dr. Cope used the alloplastic bone-grafting material to stabilize the buccal plate and shield the extraction socket from contaminants such as saliva and food.
Sunstar’s GUIDOR easy-graft is a particulate bone-grafting material designed to be syringed directly into a bone defect. Each system contains a pre-filled syringe of polymer-coated granules and an ampule of polymer activator called BioLinker. When added to the syringe, BioLinker softens the polymer coating and creates a sticky surface, allowing the GUIDOR easy-graft granules to be easily compressed and shaped in the socket.
It takes only about a minute for a stable, porous scaffold of interconnected granules to form that perfectly matches the defect shape. “Within 2 minutes of opening the pouch, the graft is placed, compacted, and solidified with minimal armamentarium,” noted Dr. Cope during his case presentation. “This site has no loose flaps of peripheral gingiva; the buccal and lingual bone is compressed with finger pressure. Sutures are not required.”
Here are 3 key features that prove GUIDOR easy-graft lives up to its name:
1. Zero Guesswork
GUIDOR easy-graft eliminates the need to guess which liquid—for example, blood or saline—to mix the granules with. Each unit-dose system comes with one syringe of coated granules and one ampule of BioLinker that can be syringed directly into a bone defect.
2. Quick Results
Because GUIDOR easy-graft hardens to a stable, porous scaffold, it eliminates the need for a dental membrane in many cases.
3. Treat More Patients
By nature of their composition, synthetic bone-grafting materials are less likely to be rejected by a patient’s body and reduce the risk of disease pathogens being transmitted. This makes them a good alternative for patients who may not want animal- or cadaver-derived materials placed in their mouths.