Reconstructive surgeries associated with regenerative and stem cell treatment concept

Regenerative medicine is the science of replacing, engineering or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal form and function. This broadly encompasses the use of cells, tissues, drugs, synthetic biomaterials and devices to help patients heal more effectively from trauma, cancer therapy, other disease processes and birth anomalies. Regenerative medicine therapies can have goals of both healing damaged tissues and forming new tissue.

For example, bone regeneration: For patients suffering extensive face or a limb trauma, large segments of bone may be missing. Surgeons are using calcium-based scaffolds and biomaterials derived from bone to form new bone tissue for reconstructive purposes.