The study is designed to examine histologic wound healing following ridge preservation using cancellous bone allograft that has been prepared either by freeze-drying (FDBA) or by a solvent-based processing method (PUROS). This entire protocol involves procedures that are standard care. All materials are FDA-approved materials being used in an FDA-approved manner. The test group subjects will have extraction sockets grafted with a cancellous non-freeze-dried bone allograft (called PUROS graft). This test group will be compared to an active control group using cancellous freeze-dried bone allograft (called FDBA). The null hypothesis is that there will be no significant difference in formation of new vital bone between treatment groups (primary outcome).~Each subject will provide a single non-molar tooth site for study treatment. After tooth extraction, the graft material will be placed and covered by a resorbable collagen membrane. Following 3 months of healing, the dental implant will be place, at which time a core of bone will be removed from the site as part of the preparation for the implant. The core biopsy will then be evaluated for the primary histologic outcome of % vital bone formation and secondary histologic outcome of % residual graft material.
The study is a 2-arm, parallel-design, randomized, prospective clinical trial designed to examine histologic wound healing following ridge preservation using bone allograft that has been prepared by either freeze-drying or via a non-freeze-dried solvent process.This entire protocol involves procedures that are standard care. All materials are FDA-approved materials being used in an FDA-approved manner. The test group subjects will have extraction sockets grafted with a cancellous non-freeze-dried bone allograft (called PUROS graft). This test group will be compared to an active control group using cancellous freeze-dried bone allograft (called FDBA). The null hypothesis is that there will be no significant difference in formation of new vital bone between treatment groups (primary outcome).~Each subject will provide a single non-molar tooth site for study treatment. After tooth extraction, the graft material will be placed and covered by a resorbable collagen membrane. Following 3 months of healing, the dental implant will be place, at which time a core of bone will be removed from the site as part of the preparation for the implant. The core biopsy will then be evaluated for the primary histologic outcome of % vital bone formation and secondary histologic outcome of % residual graft material.