Author response to: Letter to the editor concerning “Electrospun and 3D printed polymeric materials for one-stage critical-size long bone defect regeneration inspired by the Masquelet technique: Recent advances”

摘要: The authors would like to thank Laubach and Hutmacher for bringing our attention to publications that are indeed relevant to our original article published in February 2022 [1]. We acknowledge that these studies have made significant contributions, especially the Zeiter et. al 2020 [2], Sparks et. al 2020 [3] and Kobbe et. al [4]. Zeiter et. al, 2020 [2] extensively analysed 169 in vivo studies in their review article based on bone tissue engineering. They found that majority of them (143 out of 169) were based on small animals and a small proportion (24 out of 169) focussed on large animal models. Sparks et. al 2020 established a methodology and comprehensively described the steps that may be followed to accomplish pre-clinical large-animal model for critical size bone defects impressively, within two years [3]. Kobbe et. al 2020 [4] presented and discussed a case report of using PCL-TCP based scaffolds for bone …