PMID- 31170275 OWN - NLM STAT- Publisher LR - 20240227 IS - 1942-4434 (Electronic) IS - 0882-2786 (Linking) DP - 2019 Feb 26 TI - Histomorphometric Analysis of Maxillary Sinus Grafts: A Pilot Study. LID - 10.11607/jomi.6218 [doi] AB - PURPOSE: This pilot study evaluated and compared the degree of new bone formation following maxillary sinus graft (MSG) using three different bone graft materials. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Patients with an edentulous posterior maxilla (unilateral or bilateral) were included in this study and underwent a two-stage procedure. Each sinus was randomly assigned one of the three graft materials: anorganic bovine bone mineral (ABBM), anorganic equine bone mineral (AEBM), or mineralized cancellous bone allograft (MCBA). Bone core samples were obtained from the lateral wall of the grafted sites at least 8 months after MSG. Bone quality was evaluated during bone core retrieval. The samples were histomorphometrically analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn-Bonferroni tests at the significance level of alpha = .05. RESULTS: A total of 28 sinuses (14 unilateral and 7 bilateral) from 21 subjects, with a mean age of 61.5 (range, 33-75) years, were included in the study. Twenty-eight bone cores (ABBM [n = 9], AEBM [n = 9], and MCBA [n = 10]) were obtained at a mean healing time of 9.1 (range, 8-12) months. Six maxillary sinus membrane perforations (