10 Facts About Bone grafting

Bone grafting is a surgical procedure that replaces missing bone in order to repair bone fractures that are extremely complex, pose a significant health risk to the patient, or fail to heal properly.

Bone grafting generally has the ability to regenerate completely but requires a very small fracture space or some sort of scaffold to do so.

Bone grafting is possible because bone tissue, unlike most other tissues, has the ability to regenerate completely if provided the space into which to grow.

The biologic mechanisms that provide a rationale for bone grafting are osteoconduction, osteoinduction and osteogenesis.

The proper bonding of bioactive chemicals in implants used in bone grafting surgery allow the promotion of osteoconductivity in the area of a defect.

Autologous bone grafting involves utilizing bone obtained from the same individual receiving the graft.

Bone grafting can be harvested from non-essential bones, such as from the iliac crest, or more commonly in oral and maxillofacial surgery, from the mandibular symphysis or anterior mandibular ramus ; this is particularly true for block grafts, in which a small block of bone is placed whole in the area being grafted.

Dental bone grafting is a specialized oral surgical procedure that has been developed to reestablish lost jawbone.

Reasons that bone grafting might be needed include sinus augmentation, socket preservation, ridge augmentation, or regeneration.

Bone grafting grafts are used in hopes that the defective bone will be healed or will regrow with little to no graft rejection.