Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23041, published online 09 March 2016

This Article contains errors. Figure 2A, which is an illustration of the surgical procedure, was inadvertently duplicated from a different publication provided below as Reference 1. Both studies followed the same surgical protocol, but implanted different biomaterials in the defects. The correct Figure 2A appears below as Figure 1.

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In addition, the bar graph in Figure 4A was inadvertently copied from the preliminary pilot study. The correct bar graph and raw data appear below as Figure 2 and Table 1, respectively.

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Table 1 .