 Statistical Analysis Statistical analysis will be achieved by using Fishers exact test 4. A P value 0.05 will be considered as statistically significant 4. For this pilot study we will enroll 30 patients, 15 per group, but we are planning to extend this number to 50 patients in a future, multicenter, randomized study. Using a two-sample t-test, the following analyses have been performed assuming a normal distribution of 2 samples with equal variances. If the mean time to fracture healing in group 1 is 42 days compared to 35 days for group 2, with a common standard deviation of 14 days for both groups, a sample size of 50 patients will be yield a significance level of .5 and power of .80. 