What is involved with bone grafting?

Filling a bone void: Doctors use to use bone from our shin or pelvis to fill holes in bones or add to bones that were not healing. Now we usually use freeze dried bone from cadavers and chemicals called bone growth factors to enhance the healing. This avoids the second surgical site and the pain of harvesting the bone.

Augmentation: Bone grafting is a procedure aiming to augment the bone or reestablish the bone level in the area. It involves a graft harvest from a donor site or a graft material which is placed into a recipient site. Upon healing the graft would resorp and replaced by patient own bone.

Depends: Bone grafting is taking bone from a source and rebuilding the bone in a particular area. Bone grafting procedures can range from minimally invasive to very invasive. Contact your doctor to discuss your bone graft procedure.

Augment bone H/W: Bone graft is used to augment bone height and/or width. Bone is harvested from a donor site (if use your own bone) or from other source and placed into the recipient site. Membrane, mesh, screw can be used to stabilize the graft insure the optimal result. Tissue suture then must provide the complete coverage with primary intention is possible. Finally, the graft must be protect from infection.