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Is bone transplant the same as bone grafting? i've read some articles about bone grafting. is this the same thing as a bone transplant?

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Dr. Amy Friedman answered

Specializes in Transplant Surgery

Bone = Graft: When we talk about a transplant, the material that is transplanted is the graft. In your case, the bone is the graft. The type of transplant is a bone transplant. The other question is whether bone is being moved from somewhere else in your own body (an auto transplant), or from a deceased donor's body (an allo transplant).

Answered 1/1/2015

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Dr. Dinh Bui answered

Autogenous bone graf: Bone transplant is an autogenous bone graft, where bone from the patient was removed from the donor site and insert into the grafting site (recipient site). Bone grafting applied to situation when a bone graft material was used, i.e. From patient (autogenous), from other human (allograft), from animal(xenograft), or synthetically made. Bone transplant is bone graft but not vice versa.

Answered 10/4/2016

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