Key Potential Advantages of ALGINAGRAFT™

Improved Handling

The cohesive composition is designed to make bone graft material easier to grasp, transfer, position, and adapt compared with loose particulate grafts.

Improved Positional Stability

Encapsulation helps maintain graft particles together and is intended to reduce unintended particle migration during placement, irrigation, membrane positioning, and wound closure.

Controlled Graft Delivery

ALGINAGRAFT™ may potentially be supplied in predetermined quantities and configurations, providing clinicians with a more standardized approach to graft delivery.

Moisture Retention

The hydrogel matrix is designed to maintain a hydrated environment around the graft particles during handling and placement.

Adaptability to Defect Geometry

The material may potentially be configured to conform to irregular anatomical defects and different grafting sites.

Simplified Surgical Workflow

Pre-portioned or ready-to-use configurations could reduce the number of preparation and handling steps traditionally associated with particulate bone graft materials.

Controlled Geometry

The technology creates opportunities to manufacture graft compositions with predetermined shapes, dimensions, thicknesses, and volumes for different clinical procedures.

Conventional Bone Graft vs. ALGINAGRAFT™

Conventional Particulate Bone GraftALGINAGRAFT™
Loose graft particlesCohesive encapsulated graft composition
Particles may disperseDesigned to maintain particles together
May require chairside hydration and mixingPotential ready-to-use configuration
Difficult to maintain predetermined shapeEngineered three-dimensional structure
May migrate during manipulationDesigned for improved positional stability
Multiple handling stepsPotentially simplified delivery
Quantity prepared chairsidePotential pre-portioned configurations
Limited structural organizationOrganized biomaterial matrix
Handling depends heavily on particle characteristicsHandling supported by hydrogel encapsulation