60 dias, em ratos alcoolizados experimentalmente, muito embora possa ser utilizado como material de preenchimento, pois demonstra atividade osteocondutiva, com a formação de tecido ósseo ao redor das partículas do enxerto.Palavras-chave: rato, tíbia, álcool, hidroxiapatita, osso desmineralizado.
ABSTRACTEthanol inhibits the proliferation of osteoblastic cells, leading to low bone mass and increased prevalence of fractures in the alcoholic population. The amount of bone defects surgically created, and various types of accidents has increased and there is currently a great concern in the discovery of substances that accelerate new bone formation to fill those cavities. Based on the foregoing it was decided to undertake this work in order to see whether demineralized bovine bone (Gen-ox ® ) alters bone formation in rats subjected to experimental alcoholism, using it for histological and histometric analysis. For this we used 40 male rats (Rattus norvegicus) separated in two groups of 20 animals each one, distributed as follows:Group E1, which received 25% ethanol, diluted in tap water, and the surgical cavity filled only by a blood clot, and Group E2, which received 25% ethanol, diluted in tap water, and the surgical cavity filled with Gen-ox ® . After a period of three weeks of gradual adaptation to alcohol, the animals received 25% alcohol diet for a period of 90 days. After this period, the left tibia of all animals underwent a surgery where it produced an experimental surgical cavity, which in Group E1 was filled by blood clot, and in Group E2 filled with Gen-ox ® . Five animals from each group were sacrificed on days 10, 20, 40 and 60 days from the day of experimental surgery to remove part of the tibia, where the sinus surgery was done. The blocks were removed and processed histologically stained by Masson trichrome, for histomorphological and histometric study of the total area of the defect, amount of connective tissue and amount of new bone. The results showed that the reorganization of the bone marrow and full repair of the surgical cavity in Group E1 had occurred in a shorter time than in Group E2. It was also noted that in the final period, the animals in Group E2