The graft bone plugs are debrided to fit into a 10-mm cylindrical guide with the cancellous bone removed primarily. Chamfer cuts on the end of the femoral plug can help facilitate passage.

With further study, the pubic bone could become the new standard for harvesting bone grafts for certain types of reconstructive surgery, write Dr. John W. Polley and colleagues of Rush University ...

Lucas S. Marchand, MD, and colleagues identified 108 patients (53% were men) who underwent bone graft harvest with either the reamer irrigator aspirator system (n=61; Synthes) or an iliac crest ...

Autograft: Bone graft material harvested from the patient’s own body. Nonunion: A condition where fractured bone ends fail to heal together within a normal time frame.

To test the hypothesis that a template system for harvesting bone-patellar tendon-bone (BTB) would cause fewer postoperative patellofemoral problems than freehand graft harvests, two groups of 20 ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Irvine-based Biogennix, a market leader in advanced bone regeneration technology, announced today that its DirectCell Advanced Bone Grafting System has already ...

Bone Grafting Bone grafting is a surgical procedure undertaken by people who experience complex bone fractures. The process commonly involves harvesting bone from the patients themselves or ...

Autologous grafts use bone from the person receiving the graft. Allogeneic grafts use donor bone harvested during surgical procedures such as hip replacements and sanitized for use in others.

A new recipe for a bone-graft biomaterial that is supercooled before application should make it easier to meet dental patients' expectation of a good-looking smile while eliminating the pain ...

A new ceramic bone graft material has been patented by Dr Wei-Jen Lo, founder of Orthogem limited, that not only results in rapid, high quality bone growth, but also retains the structural integrity ...