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Vol.3, No.4, 200-205 (2011) Health doi:10.4236/health.2011.34036 Effects of chitosan on dental bone repair 1* 2 3 Fatemeh Ezoddini-Ardakani , Alireza Navab Azam , Soghra Yassaei , Farhad Fatehi4, Gholamreza Rouhi5 1Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran; *Corresponding Author: ezoddini@; 2Lecturer of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran; 3Associate Professor of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran; 4Yazd Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran; 5Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Received 26 February 2011; revised 12 March 2011; accepted 1 April 2011. ABSTRACT bone loss. Various densitometry studies for evaluating chitosan effects in different bone Objectives: Bone defects following tumor re- defects are suggested. section and osteolysis due to dental and bone Keywords: Chitosan; Bone Regeneration/Drug lesions and periodentium tissue disorders are Effects; Biocompatible Materials/Administration serious challenges. One of these materials used Dosage is chitosan, a derivative of crustaceans’ exo- skeleton. The aim of this study was to assess 1