Monday, December 9, 2013

Primary vs Secondary Bone Healing

Primary bone healing occurs when cortical bone is touching each other and is fixed rigidly by other cortical bone or hardware. The bone fuses together by bone cones which consists of leading osteoclasts and trailed by osteoblasts forming a cone.

Secondary bone healing goes through the process similar to wound healing such as hemostasis, inflammation, callus bone formation and reconstruction to produce the same, if not better bone.

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