Bone Restoration
Many medical conditions such as severe fractures can result in gaps or voids in your bone that healing. Surgical procedures have prevent proper been developed to take bone from another place and graft it in to fill gaps and replace damaged or diseased bone. Around 500,000 bone grafts were performed in 1994. Initial bone grafts were of two types: autograft and allont To autograft, the surgeon harvested bone from another place in the body to fill in for missing or damaged bone. Because autografts required a complex and expensive surgical operation, they often caused complications such as excess bleeding, chronic pain, deformity, and infection. Allografting used bone from a cadaver, which increased the risk of infection and also the potential that a patient's body would reject the graft.