Resumo (EN)
The need of a better understanding of the bone metabolism became growing in Dentistry. The coming of the implantology demanded the search for good conditions of bone tissue seeking to the placement of implants and also for the need of previous preparation in order to receive bone grafts in areas that need bone to great reconstructions in the field of maxillofacial surgery which looks upon to rebuild bone structures lost by trauma or tumoral damages, which tends as donor area, the iliac bone. The osteocalcin, product of the osteoblastic action, intimately related to the mineralization of the bone matrix, keeps its action stimulated by the vitamin D3 and is indispensable for the process of the bone tissue mineralization. This paper intend to a revision of the most important aspects related to the performance of these two substances in the bone metabolism.