PURPOSE: Evaluate the use of canine bone conserved in honey as graft in the correction of bone defects in dogs. METHODS: Twelve mongrel dogs were used, male and female, weighing between 6 and 15 kg, comprising a single experimental group. After, the left femur was accessed in the lateral side of its shaft and a segment of two centimeters length by one third of the diameter was removed. Two intrammedulary Steinman pins were inserted by normograde way and the defect was covered with the bone graft and fixed with cerclage wire. The animals were radiographically evaluated in the day of the surgery, 30 and 60 days after. RESULTS: By the end of the 60 days these dogs were euthaniezed for gross and microscopycal evaluation. Eight animals presented the incorporation of the graft and the other four had bone resorption in the inplantation site. CONCLUSION: The bone preserved in honey is able to be used in bone grafting.
Orthopedy; Canine; Bone grafting; Honey
