Waltham office of Boston Bone & Joint Institute's Regenerative Orthopedics Center, offering bone marrow concentrate, platelet injections and cartilage repair surgery.
This is the Waltham, Massachusetts office of the Regenerative Orthopedics Center, part of Boston Bone & Joint Institute (BBJI). The centre is one service within a large orthopaedic group with six offices across the Boston area, so this entry describes the same organisation as the Dedham and Milton listings. It treats patients directly; research is handled separately by the BBJI Research Foundation.
The centre treats joint degeneration and cartilage damage using both injections and surgery. Injections are platelet-rich plasma (PRP), concentrated from the patient's blood, bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) from the patient's own marrow, and hyaluronic acid gel viscosupplementation. Surgical cartilage repair options include matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation (MACI), which grows and re-implants the patient's own cartilage cells, osteochondral graft transfer (OATS), and marrow stimulation techniques such as microfracture and BioCartilage.
The centre states on its own site that these treatments may not completely reverse joint arthritis but may improve pain and preserve joint function, and it discloses that platelet-rich plasma and bone marrow concentrate injections are generally not covered by insurance. It also publishes a figure that its platelet preparation is concentrated to over 90 per cent from a natural 10 per cent; this is the practice's own figure and has not been independently verified. Opening hours, year of establishment and languages spoken are not published.
Most material comes from the patient's own body. Donor bone-and-cartilage grafts may be used in osteochondral transfer.
The Waltham office is at 71 Border Road, Third Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. The group's central telephone number is (781) 890-2133, fax (781) 890-2177. Boston Bone & Joint Institute also has offices in Boston, Dedham, Woburn, Milton and Westborough, with limited services at some sites. Opening hours, year of establishment and languages are not published.
No prices are published, but the site states that insurance cover varies by treatment and that platelet-rich plasma and bone marrow concentrate injections are generally not covered. Surgical cartilage procedures may be covered. Ask which applies to you.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.