Iris Publishers - Online Journal of Dentistry & Oral Health| Platelet Concentrates and Their Clinical Applications in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Periodontal, Dentoalveolar and Reconstructive Surgery and Endodontics. Current Review.
Authored by David A Dominguez Medina, Introduction There has been an evolution in the development and use of concentrates, the first ones: the fibrin glues (40 years ago) widely used in plastic surgery for skin healing that became popular in daily practice, then the platelet concentrate was first described in two publications in 1988 and 1990 (both from Knighton, et al) for the treatment of skin ulcers, and quickly its applications extended to the Oral and Maxillofacial surgery field, and with Marx and Whitman et al. publications (1998 and 1997) these concentrates were englobed with the common name of Platetet Rich Plasma (PRP) [2]. There are four families of Platelet Rich Plasma concentrates: Pure Platelet Rich Plasma (P-PRP), Leukocyte and Platelet Rich Plasma (L-PRP), Pure Platelet Rich Fibrin (P-PRF) and Leukocyte and Platelet Rich Fibrin (L-PRF) [2], there are also 2 subcategories of L-PRF: Advanced Platelet Rich Fibrin (A-PRF) and Injectable Platelet Rich Fibrin (i-PR...