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Critical size bone defect healing assessed with (a) a tri-calcium phosphate scaffold (b) implanted in a rabbit bone with (c) post-op histological section after sixteen weeks. The scaffold appears greyish black and the bone appears purple in the histology image; the distorted lattice structure and gaps indicate failure. Images adapted with permission [29].
