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Although these treatment options often have good outcomes, they are associated with substantial morbidity, and many patients are not candidates for free tissue transfer.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To assess whether polysaccharide-based scaffold (PS) constructs that are cross-linked with smoothened agonist (SAG), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and bone morphogenetic protein 6 (BMP-6) would substantially increase bone regeneration.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This animal model study was conducted at the University of Virginia School of Medicine Cui Laboratory from March 1, 2017, to June 30, 2017. Thirty-three 10-week-old female Lewis rats were acquired for the study. Bilateral nonsegmental critical-sized defects were created in the angle of rat mandibles. The defects were either left untreated or filled with 1 of the 9 PSs. The rats were killed after 8 weeks, and bone regeneration was evaluated using microcomputed tomographic imaging and mechanical testing. Analysis of variance testing was used to compare the treatment groups.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Blinded analysis and computer analysis of the microcomputed tomographic images were used to assess bone regeneration.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      In the 33 female Lewis rats, minimal healing was observed in the untreated mandibles. Addition of SAG was associated with increases in bone regeneration and bone density in all treatment groups, and maximum bone healing was seen in the group with BMP-6, VEGF, and SAG cross-linked to PS. For each of the 5 no scaffold group vs BMP-6, VEGF, and SAG cross-linked to PS group comparisons, mean defect bone regeneration was 4.14% (95% CI, 0.94%-7.33%) vs 66.19% (95% CI, 54.47%-77.90%); mean bone volume, 14.52 mm\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      (95% CI, 13.07-15.97 mm\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      ) vs 20.87 mm\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      (95% CI, 14.73- 27.01 mm\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      ); mean bone surface, 68.97 mm\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      (95% CI, 60.08-77.85 mm\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      ) vs 96.77 mm\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      (95% CI, 76.11-117.43 mm\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      ); mean ratio of bone volume to total volume, 0.11 (95% CI, 0.10-0.11) vs 0.15 (95% CI, 0.10-0.19); and mean connectivity density 0.03 (95% CI, 0.02-0.05) vs 0.32 (95% CI, 0.25-0.38). On mechanical testing, mandibles with untreated defects broke with less force than control mandibles in which no defect was made, although this force did not reach statistical significance. No significant difference in force to fracture was observed among the treatment groups.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this rat model study, activation of the hedgehog signaling pathway using smoothened agonist was associated with increased craniofacial bone regeneration compared with growth factors alone, including US Food and Drug Administration\u2013approved recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein 2. 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