Haemostatic sponges as an alternative to granular bone substitute for sinus lifts.

Keywords: Sinus lift; collagen sponge; gelatin sponge; mechanical properties; microstructure EN Sinus lift collagen sponge gelatin sponge mechanical properties microstructure S206 S208 3 11/26/20 20200902 NES 200902 1. Case reports and case series have pointed out successful new bone formation after sinus membrane elevation using reoxidised cellulose (Gray et al. [2]), venous blood clot (Moon et al. [3]) and gelatin sponge (Sohn et al. [4]) as space maintainers. [Extracted from the article]