Bone grafting is a commonly performed surgical procedure. A bone graft transplants bone tissue. Bone grafts to repair and rebuild diseased bones in your hips, knees, spine, and sometimes other bones and joints. Grafts can also repair bone loss caused by some types of fractures or cancers. Once your body accepts the bone graft, it provides a framework for growth of new, living bone.

Bone has the ability to regenerate completely if provided the space into which to grow. As native bone grows, it  replaces  the graft material completely and results in a fully integrated region of new bone.

Depending upon the source where the graft is taken from, the bone grafts can be autograft or allograft.

Autograft

Also called autologous or autogenous bone graft, this kind of graft is obtained from the same individual receiving the graft. Bone can be harvested from non-essential bones, such as the iliac crest. Iliac crest is most common source of autografts in orthopedic surgery. Other places where graft can be taken from is fibula or metaphyses of long bones. [Read more...]

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