The use of woven ceramic fabric as a periodontal allograft

1. The grafted material appears extremely compatible with the animals tested for the observed time periods. 2. The procedures used led to the obliteration of surgically created one-wall infrabony periodontal pockets with fibrous connective tissue and/or bone. 3. The ready access, ease of placement and flexibility of the woven ceramic materials appear to provide some definite advantages over autogenous bone and many of the alloplastic materials presently being used in the correction of infrabony periodontal pockets. 4. Although in the experimental animals the graft materials appeared to be nontoxic, nonantigenic and compatible with the growth of new bone, long-term studies are indicated to determine is compatibility and potential to obliterate "chronic" periodontal lesions.