The human body has a great potential to heal itself. Autologous plasma harvested from the patient during the surgery, possesses a huge number of growth factors which can initiate the healing process.
Such growth factors can be rendered operable by processing the blood into a liquid plasma, gel, or as a fibrin mesh. All of which has its own indications and limitations. The revolutionary introduction of the non autologous growth factors, has acquired plausibility recently, and has been found extremely effective in enticing a specific cell line such as osteoblasts and fibroblasts essential for osseointegration and soft tissue adhesion around dental implants.