Techniques of Obtaining BMAC, PRP, and PRF

Recent advances have been developed since the introduction of platelet-rich plasma into the craniomaxillofacial surgery by Robert Marx in the 1980s. Although it has been more than three decades, the goals remain the same: minimize the second site morbidity and increase the predictability of the bone graft. Numerous researches have shown that soft tissue healing is significantly improved with the use of platelet growth factors. The same also applies to the bone healing process but to a lesser magnitude. Therefore, the application of all the different types of platelet growth factors is becoming now more practical, and it can be accomplished as an office-based procedure. In this chapter, we explain the three most common procedures to harvest an autologous source of growth factors to augment the procurement of bone graft and hasten the soft tissue healing.