- Non-ceramic calcium apatite
- Collagen: Bovine (Achilles tendon)
- 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm, 15 × 20 mm
- 5 or 10 per box
Price not published
Bone graft plug database
Bone graft plug comparison chart
The 14 products sold in the US as bone graft plugs, or mistaken for them, normalized across the same attributes. They are not one category: some carry a synthetic mineral, some a bovine one, and two contain no mineral at all. Every value below is what the manufacturer publishes, sourced and dated, with no value inferred and nothing ranked.
- 14 products compared
- 4 product categories
- Every value sourced
- Verified 2026-08-21
Finder
Find a bone graft plug for your workflow
An educational selection tool over the same records as the chart below. It narrows by constraints you state and says plainly when nothing satisfies them. It does not make clinical recommendations.
These products contain no mineral and are not grafts: they control bleeding and protect the site while soft tissue closes, and they are absorbed within about two weeks. Where the objective is ridge volume, choose the graft path. The full distinction is on bone graft plug vs collagen plug.
Start with the four-category table below: it separates mineral grafts from collagen-only products in one read. Both groups stay listed here in the meantime.
No product in this database is free of animal-derived material. Every mineral-collagen plug listed here uses a bovine collagen carrier, including the products described as synthetic: the mineral is synthetic, the carrier is not. Bio-Oss Collagen's carrier is porcine and its mineral is bovine. The products whose mineral phase is synthetic are shown below, with the carrier stated on each.
No allograft plug is in this database. We did not find a mineral-collagen plug with an allograft mineral currently marketed in the US. One caution worth having: the RegenerOss brand covers both an allograft particulate and the synthetic carbonate apatite plug listed here, so the name alone does not settle the material. An allograft preference points to a particulate workflow rather than a plug.
No product matches this combination. That reflects what manufacturers publish, not necessarily what exists: where sizes or indications are unpublished, a product drops out of specific filters rather than being guessed into them.
Graft materials
Mineral-collagen plugs and collagenated blocks.
- Carbonate apatite
- Collagen: Bovine
- 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm
- 5 per box
Price not published
PreservaRidge Plug
- Mineral: not published
- Collagen: Bovine (Achilles tendon)
- 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm
- 5 per box
Price not published
REGENAFILL Bone Graft Plug
- Carbonate apatite
- Collagen: Bovine
- 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm
- 5 per box
Price not published
Straumann SocketPlug
- Carbonate apatite
- Collagen: Bovine (Achilles tendon)
- 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm
- 5 per box
Price not published
SpongeGraft Bone Plugs Implanex
- β-TCP / hydroxyapatite
- Collagen: Bovine (tendon)
- 10 × 20 mm
- 5 per box
$43.80 per plug
Sponge ZenGraft Bone Plugs Implanex
- Deproteinized bovine bone mineral
- Collagen: Bovine (tendon)
- 10 × 20 mm
- 5 per box
$57.80 per plug
MinerOss X Plug
- Deproteinized bovine bone mineral
- Collagen: Bovine (Achilles tendon)
- 9 × 15 mm, 10 × 20 mm
Sizes are as reported by a professional-education review, not by the manufacturer.
Price not published
- Deproteinized bovine bone mineral
- Collagen: Porcine
- 5.0 × 7.5 mm, 5.0 × 7.0 mm, 7.0 × 7.0 mm, 10.0 × 7.0 mm
Bovine mineral with a porcine collagen carrier: two species in one product.
Sold by mass; price not published
MinerOss X Collagen
- Deproteinized bovine bone mineral
- Collagen: Bovine
- Sizes: not published
Sold by mass; price not published
Gibson Healthcare Bone Graft Plug
- Carbonate apatite
- Collagen: Bovine (Achilles tendon)
- 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm
- 5 per box
Publishes no indications list, so it drops out of procedure-filtered views.
Price not published
Non-graft collagen products
Sold in the same aisle and confused with the group above. None of these contains mineral.
Foundation Bone Filling Material
- None
- Collagen: Bovine
- 8 × 25 mm, 15 × 25 mm
- 5 or 10 per box
Contains no mineral. The manufacturer states it is not a bone substitute.
Price not published
HeliPlug Collagen Wound Dressing
- None
- Collagen: Bovine (tendon)
- 3/8 in x 3/4 in (approx. 1cm x 2cm)
- 10 per box
Absorbed in 10 to 14 days. Indicated for bleeding control and wound protection, not grafting.
Price not published
CollaPlug
- None
- Collagen: Bovine (tendon)
- 3/8 in x 3/4 in (approx. 1cm x 2cm)
- 10 per box
Absorbed in roughly 2 to 4 weeks. A wound dressing, not a graft.
Price not published
An educational product-selection tool built on published specifications. It does not make individualized clinical recommendations, and the choice of material for a given case is the clinician's. Records verified on the date shown in the methodology section.
Before the chart
Four categories are sold as one
Products reach the same search results and the same distributor aisle while differing in whether they contain any mineral at all.
| Category | Mineral | Time in the site | Indicated for bone? | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mineral-collagen plug | Yes, held in a collagen carrier | Months | Yes | OsteoGen, RegenerOss, SpongeGraft, Sponge ZenGraft |
| Collagenated block | Yes, 90 to 95% | Months, with residual particles persisting longer | Yes | Bio-Oss Collagen, MinerOss X Collagen |
| Collagen scaffold sold as bone filler | None | Not published | The manufacturer states it is not a bone substitute | Foundation |
| Collagen wound dressing | None | Roughly 2 to 4 weeks or less | No. Indicated for bleeding control and wound protection | HeliPlug, CollaPlug |
Category is assigned from what a product contains and what its manufacturer says it is for, not from its shape. Plug-shaped is not a category.
The chart
Mineral-collagen plugs, side by side
Every value is what the manufacturer or its distributor publishes. Empty cells mean nothing was published, not that the answer is zero.
| Product | Brand owner | Manufacturer | Mineral | Mineral origin | Mineral % | Collagen source | Collagen % | Sizes | Per box | Price per plug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OsteoGen Plug | Impladent Ltd. | Impladent Ltd., Jamaica, NY | Non-ceramic calcium apatite | Synthetic | Not published | Bovine (Achilles tendon) | Not published | 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm, 15 × 20 mm | 5 or 10 | Not published |
| RegenerOss Bone Graft Plug | ZimVie Dental | Collagen Matrix, Inc. (FDA UDI company of record; models RGP1020, RGP0625) | Carbonate apatite | Synthetic | 80% | Bovine | 20% | 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm | 5 | Not published |
| PreservaRidge Plug | Citagenix Regen LLC | Collagen Matrix, Inc. (FDA UDI company of record; models PRPREG, PRPSLM) | Not published | Synthetic | 80% | Bovine (Achilles tendon) | 20% | 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm | 5 | Not published |
| REGENAFILL Bone Graft Plug | Surgical Esthetics | Collagen Matrix, Inc. (FDA UDI company of record; models RFP10X20, RFP6X25) | Carbonate apatite | Synthetic | 80% | Bovine | 20% | 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm | 5 | Not published |
| Straumann SocketPlug | Straumann Group | Collagen Matrix, Inc. (AccessGUDID company of record; models 070.051, 070.052) | Carbonate apatite | Synthetic | 80% | Bovine (Achilles tendon) | 20% | 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm | 5 | Not published |
| SpongeGraft Bone Plugs Implanex | Implanex (distributor) | Not disclosed by the distributor | β-TCP / hydroxyapatite | Synthetic | Not published | Bovine (tendon) | Not published | 10 × 20 mm | 5 | $43.80 |
| Sponge ZenGraft Bone Plugs Implanex | Implanex (distributor) | Not disclosed by the distributor | Deproteinized bovine bone mineral | Bovine xenograft | Not published | Bovine (tendon) | Not published | 10 × 20 mm | 5 | $57.80 |
| MinerOss X Plug | BioHorizons | Not published | Deproteinized bovine bone mineral | Bovine xenograft | 80% | Bovine (Achilles tendon) | 20% | 9 × 15 mm, 10 × 20 mm | Not published | Not published |
| Gibson Healthcare Bone Graft Plug | Gibson Healthcare (Benco Dental brand) | Collagen Matrix, Inc. (AccessGUDID company of record; Benco model 5824-413) | Carbonate apatite | Synthetic | 80% | Bovine (Achilles tendon) | 20% | 6 × 25 mm, 10 × 20 mm | 5 | Not published |
Blocks, fillers and dressings sold alongside them
Grouped separately because the first two carry mineral and the last two do not. Sizes are as published: the blocks are cut to fit rather than supplied in socket dimensions.
| Product | Brand owner | Category | Mineral | Collagen source | Sizes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geistlich Bio-Oss Collagen | Geistlich Pharma AG | Collagenated block | Deproteinized bovine bone mineral | Porcine | 5.0 × 7.5 mm, 5.0 × 7.0 mm, 7.0 × 7.0 mm, 10.0 × 7.0 mm |
| MinerOss X Collagen | BioHorizons | Collagenated block | Deproteinized bovine bone mineral | Bovine | Not published |
| Foundation Bone Filling Material | J. Morita USA (partner product) | Collagen scaffold sold as bone filler | None | Bovine | 8 × 25 mm, 15 × 25 mm |
| HeliPlug Collagen Wound Dressing | Integra LifeSciences | Collagen wound dressing | None | Bovine (tendon) | 3/8 in x 3/4 in (approx. 1cm x 2cm) |
| CollaPlug | Integra LifeSciences Corporation | Collagen wound dressing | None | Bovine (tendon) | 3/8 in x 3/4 in (approx. 1cm x 2cm) |
Reading the chart
What the specifications actually show
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Five brands, one registered manufacturer
RegenerOss, REGENAFILL, Straumann SocketPlug, PreservaRidge and the Gibson Healthcare plug all list Collagen Matrix, Inc. as the company of record in the FDA’s UDI device registration database, read on the date below. Four of the five publish the same specification: approximately 80% synthetic carbonate apatite with 20% Type I bovine collagen, in 6 × 25 mm and 10 × 20 mm, five per box. PreservaRidge matches on everything except that its brand owner never names the mineral phase.
The UDI registration establishes who makes each device. It does not state that the five are the identical formulation, and we do not claim that. What a buyer can take from the public record: same registered manufacturer, matching published specifications, five brand names, five prices, none of them public.
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The recurring 80/20 ratio does not mean two products are alike
MinerOss X Plug is also 80% mineral and 20% bovine Type I collagen, and its mineral is bovine cancellous bone rather than a synthetic. The ratio describes how much collagen it takes to hold mineral in a plug. It says nothing about what the mineral is, which is the part that differs.
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Collagen species varies, and one product uses two
Geistlich publishes Bio-Oss Collagen as 90% bovine bone granules with 10% porcine collagen: bovine mineral, porcine carrier, in one product. Every other collagenated product in the chart uses bovine collagen. Where a patient has a restriction on animal-derived material, bovine and porcine are not interchangeable, so the chart keeps the species rather than collapsing it to "animal-derived".
This applies to our own products too. SpongeGraft has a synthetic mineral phase and a bovine collagen carrier. Describing it as simply "synthetic" would be misleading at the moment that distinction matters.
In their own words
Where the manufacturers disagree
Quoted rather than paraphrased, and limited to what each manufacturer published. Products that state nothing are left out, since an absent claim cannot be quoted.
On whether a separate membrane is needed
- OsteoGen Plug
no need for a membrane; Compact the OsteoGen Plug to make a membrane
- REGENAFILL Bone Graft Plug
In most cases, no membrane is needed during operation
- Geistlich Bio-Oss Collagen
The collagen is absorbed after a few weeks and does not replace the barrier function of a membrane.
- Foundation Bone Filling Material
There is no need to remove it and no membrane is required
Our position. In intact, contained sockets a plug can be placed as a one-step procedure without a separate membrane. Where a socket wall is deficient or the defect is not contained, a barrier membrane and standard guided bone regeneration principles still apply. We do not publish the unconditional form of this claim for our own products and do not adopt it from anyone else’s.
On resorption and when an implant can follow
| Product | Resorption, as published | Implant timing, as published |
|---|---|---|
| OsteoGen Plug | CONFLICTING: 'replaced by host bone tissue in 4-6 months' (Ultradent) vs 'replaced by host bone tissue in 3-6 months' (Impladent brochure); 'crystals will resorb over 3-6 months and will turn from radiolucent to radiopaque' | Once fully radiopaque, sufficient host bone has formed and implant placement can now be achieved |
| RegenerOss Bone Graft Plug | Full resorption 9-12 months | typically 6 months post-grafting |
| PreservaRidge Plug | Resorbs completely between 9-12 months | Not published |
| SpongeGraft Bone Plugs | Osteoconductive scaffold with a balanced resorption profile from the more soluble beta-TCP and the slower hydroxyapatite. No completion timeline published. | In favorable, contained sockets new bone can mature enough for implant placement in as little as roughly 3 months; a more conservative window is around 4-6 months. Confirm clinically and radiographically. |
| Sponge ZenGraft Bone Plugs | Deproteinized bovine bone mineral is osteoconductive and resorbs slowly; residual particles persist as space maintainers. New bone forms along the scaffold rather than fully replacing it short-term. | In favorable, contained sockets new bone can mature enough for implant placement in as little as roughly 3 months; a more conservative window is around 4-6 months. Confirm clinically and radiographically. |
These are claims, not findings. None of the figures above is an outcome you should expect, and one manufacturer publishes two different resorption windows for the same product across its own brochure and its US distributor’s page. Time to implant placement depends on the site and the patient, and bone readiness needs confirming clinically and radiographically whatever the packaging says.
What these cost, and why the chart mostly cannot tell you
A price per plug could be worked out for 2 of the 14 products, and both of them are ours. Every other channel checked either gates the price behind a trade login or publishes none at all: Benco shows a suggested retail price only to signed-in accounts, Straumann’s own US storefront renders no price, ZimVie routes to an ordering portal, and Glidewell offers a phone number instead. That is how the category works, not a gap in the research.
- SpongeGraft $219 per box of 5 $43.80 per plug
- Sponge ZenGraft $289 per box of 5 $57.80 per plug
Our own list prices are on this page and on every product page, per box and per plug. We publish them because a clinician comparing materials should not have to open a trade account to find out what one costs.
Method
How this chart was built
- What was included
- Products currently marketed in the US in plug, block or strip form for extraction socket, ridge preservation or peri-implant grafting, plus the collagen dressings routinely mistaken for them.
- Where the values came from
- FDA device registration records where they exist, then manufacturer product documentation, then distributor listings where no manufacturer page publishes the value. Each is labeled. Clinician forum discussion was used to find the questions worth answering and never as a source of fact.
- What was not done
- No value was inferred from a similar product. Where a manufacturer publishes nothing, the cell reads "Not published" rather than borrowing a plausible figure from a competitor with a similar specification. Registered manufacturer identity comes only from the FDA UDI database, never from matching specifications.
- What is still missing
- No instructions-for-use document was obtained for any product, so composition values sit below the top of the source hierarchy even where the manufacturer of record is regulatory-tier fact.
What this chart cannot tell you
- This chart compares what manufacturers publish. It is not a comparison of clinical outcomes, and it is not evidence that any product performs better than another.
- Product-specific clinical evidence barely exists in this category. Bio-Oss Collagen is the exception, with a substantial independent literature; for most of the rest we found no independent trials at all.
- Specifications change without notice. Confirm against the instructions for use in the box, which take precedence over anything here.
Professional use. This page is product information for licensed dental professionals. It is not clinical advice, not a recommendation for any individual case, and not a substitute for each manufacturer’s instructions for use, which ship in every box and take precedence.
Sources
- Ultradent Products, Inc. distributor of Impladent OsteoGen https://www.ultradent.com/products/categories/surgical/bone-grafting/osteogen-bone-grafts
- Impladent Ltd. manufacturer brochure, 2021 https://www.kyda.org/res/uploads/media/Impladent-1-OsteoGen-Plug-Brochure-2021.pdf
- ZimVie Dental brand owner https://www.zimvie.com/en/dental/biomaterial-solutions/bone-graft-materials/regeneross-bone-graft-plug.html
- Geistlich Pharma AG manufacturer https://www.geistlich.com/en-gb/dental-professionals/bone-substitutes/bio-oss-collagen
- BioHorizons manufacturer / brand owner https://www.biohorizons.com/products/MinerOssXPlug
- BioHorizons manufacturer / brand owner https://www.biohorizons.com/Products/MinerOssX
- Straumann Group brand owner product page https://www.straumann.com/us/en/dental-professionals/products-and-solutions/biomaterials/bone-substitutes/socket-plug.html
- Straumann Group USA brand owner storefront https://shop.straumann.com/us/en_us/Biomaterials/Bone-Substitutes/Plugs/SocketPlug/p/070.051
- Citagenix Regen LLC manufacturer / brand owner https://citagenix.com/preservaridge-h
- J. Morita USA distributor / partner product https://www.morita.com/america/en/products/partner-products/bone-augmentation/foundation/
- Integra LifeSciences / McKesson manufacturer product record via distributor https://mms.mckesson.com/product/696109/Integra-Lifesciences-62-202
- Collagen Matrix, Inc. (via BioSpace) OEM 510(k) clearance announcement https://www.biospace.com/collagen-matrix-inc-receives-fda-510-k-clearance-for-synoss-tm-synthetic-mineral-bone-graft-material
- Benco Dental distributor listing for Surgical Esthetics product https://shop.benco.com/Product/6483-290/regenafill-bone-graft-plug-6x25mm-box-of-5
- GoldenDent distributor listing https://www.physicsforceps.com/osteogen-plugs-graft
Last verified 2026-08-21. Manufacturers change formulations, packaging and published claims without notice. Every value on this page was read from the source listed against it on that date, and confirming current specifications against the instructions for use in the box remains the clinician's call.
Related reading
- Bone graft plug vs collagen plug Why a collagen wound dressing and a mineral graft plug are not alternatives, and when each one is the right choice.
- OsteoGen Plug: specifications, claims and alternatives The most searched plug in the category, with its composition, its two conflicting resorption figures, and what it is comparable to.
- Bone graft plug vs particulate graft The format decision: contained pre-loaded delivery against dose-to-the-defect flexibility.
- Dental bone graft materials A step further back: autograft, allograft, xenograft and alloplast, and what separates the classes.
Choosing a graft format for a contained extraction socket? see the plugs we supply and what they cost
Common questions
Bone graft plug questions, answered
What is a bone graft plug?
A pre-formed graft in which a mineral is held inside a collagen carrier, shaped to sit in an extraction socket. The collagen adapts to the socket walls and holds the mineral in place, which removes the mixing and packing that loose particulate needs. The mineral is osteoconductive: it acts as a scaffold along which the patient’s own bone forms.
Is a collagen plug the same as a bone graft plug?
No. A collagen wound dressing such as HeliPlug contains no mineral and is absorbed in 10 to 14 days; it is indicated for controlling bleeding and protecting the wound, and its manufacturer makes no bone-formation claim. A bone graft plug carries a mineral scaffold that stays in the site for months. They are sold in the same aisle and are not alternatives to each other.
Which bone graft plug is best?
Published reviews have not established that any material class is clinically superior for hard-tissue outcomes, so this chart does not rank them. The differences that are real and documented are the mineral itself, how quickly it resorbs, the collagen species, and the sizes each manufacturer offers.
Are synthetic bone graft plugs free of animal-derived material?
Generally not. In every mineral-collagen plug in this chart the carrier is bovine collagen, including products whose mineral phase is synthetic. Bio-Oss Collagen uses porcine collagen with bovine mineral. If a patient has a restriction, the carrier needs checking as well as the mineral.
Do bone graft plugs need a separate membrane?
Manufacturers disagree in print, and this page quotes them side by side. Our own position is the conditional one: in intact, contained sockets a plug can be placed as a one-step procedure without a separate membrane, while a deficient wall or a non-contained defect means a barrier membrane and standard guided bone regeneration principles still apply.
Why are most of the prices missing?
Because they are not published. Most US distributors show bone graft plug pricing only to signed-in trade accounts, and several manufacturers publish no price at all. Only 2 of the 14 products have a publicly retrievable price, and both are ours.