European Markets for Bone Grafts and Cements to Double in Seven Years

Business Wire, April 22, 2008

LONDON -- Technological improvements in bone grafts and cements have greatly increased the success rates of spinal surgeries and other bone graft procedures. The availability of a wide range of technologically superior bone grafts provides surgeons with the flexibility to choose suitable grafts for specific needs, increasingly making allografts the procedure of choice.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.medicaldevices.frost.com), European Markets for Bone Grafts and Bone Cements, finds that the market earned revenues of USD 641.2 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach USD 1 498.2 million in 2014.

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"As manufacturing processes for machined bone become more efficient and are able to extract more value from the same limited supply pool, the number of units sold is expected to increase," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Kezia Jasper. "New product designs attract more surgeons and thereby, boost revenues."

Patients and surgeons also prefer allografts for their other significant advantages such as lower hospital and procedure costs, higher success rates, reduced morbidity, pain and blood loss, and better stability and rehabilitation.

The rise in the number of published clinical studies substantiating the advantages of allografts has also encouraged surgeons to adopt these grafts. They are further impelled by the availability of machined and standard bone grafts, since unlike autografts, they eliminate the need for an additional surgery.

However, the bones and organs in allograft surgeries are mainly sourced from donors who pledge their organs. With the numbers of donors remaining static for almost a decade, there is a crunch in supply of tissues and raw materials for processing.

This public reticence to donate organs is due to a variety of reasons such as religious, social and emotional issues as well as inadequate awareness. Moreover, the availability of specific allografts in certain quantities is partly influenced by the number of donations that are processed.

Non-profit organisations have had bigger success than corporates in procuring tissues, since relatives feel less queasy about donating a body to a non-profit organisation than selling it to commercial organisations. To counter this situation, commercial companies need to establish agreements with non-profit tissue banks to procure tissue.

"Once they collaborate, they could offer high-quality training and education to tissue recovery teams to ensure the donated tissues are collected and refrigerated in time so that there are fewer possibilities of contamination," notes Jasper. "Timely collection of tissues will also improve the testing and screening procedures."

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European Markets for Bone Grafts and Bone Cements

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