“…The efficacy of rhBMP‐2 to promote de novo bone formation has been successfully documented in the rabbit calvarial “dome model.” In titanium sealed cylinders, adding rhBMP‐2 to synthetic or bovine‐derived grafts (Polo, Lima, De Lucca, Piacezzi & Naclerio‐Homem, ), to a PEG hydrogel and HA/TCP (Jung, Weber, Thoma, Ehrbar & Cochran, ), or to a synthetic self‐assembling peptide (RADA16‐I; Ikeno, Hibi, Kinoshita, Hattori & Ueda, ) significantly increased the amount of newly formed bone. Similarly, increased bone augmentation was observed for PLLA/TCP domes loaded with rhBMP‐2 vs. non‐loaded domes (Lee, Nam, Seol, Kim & Lee, ), when a collagen sponge (ACS) loaded with rhBMP‐2 vs. a non‐loaded ACS was placed under a titanium cup (Hasegawa, Sato, Takayama, Murai & Suzuki, ), and when rhBMP‐2 with a poly(lactic‐co‐glycolic acid) copolymer/gelatin sponge (PGS) carrier was placed under a e‐PTFE mould compared with the carrier alone (Takeishi, Irie, Okuda, Ozawa & Yajima, ).…”