Bone Grafting Flashcards
What is bone grafting and the point of it?
Bone grafting involves the transplantation or implantation of bone or bone substitute to enhance bone healing or replace missing bone.
Define autograft
From the same animal
Define allograft
From a different animal
Define xenograft
From different species
What are the types of autograft most commonly used? (3)
Cancellous
Cortical-cancellous
Cortical (vascularised, non-vascularised)
What are the types of allograft most commonly used? (3)
Cancellous bone chips
Cortical grafts
Demineralised bone matrix
What type of growth factor graft is commonly used?
Bone morphogenic proteins
What is the commonly used synthetic graft?
Hydroxyapatite
What are the 4 possible properties of a bone graft?
- Oestoconduction
- Osteoinduction
- Osteogenesis
- Osteopromotion
What is osteoconduction?
Provision of a scaffold matrix for mesenchymal stem cells and their progeny to migrate into and proliferate with.
Osteoconduction:
Materials may or may not impart A) characteristics during bone regeneration, may or may not be B) , and may be naturally occurring
A) load-bearing
B) absorbable
What is osteoinduction?
These materials recruit mesenchymal stem cells or their progeny to infiltrate the material or tissues (chemoattraction and migration), and then they induce multipotential cells to multiply and become cells that make up the regenerating bony callus (proliferation and differentiation).
What is osteogenesis
Formation of new bone by the graft; the graft must contain viable osteoblasts or stem cells that can differentiate into osteoblasts.
Osteopromotion can be achieved by
introduction of substances or materials that enhance bone regeneration or by physical or mechanical strategies that induce proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells and their progeny.
Examples of osteopromotive (3)
platelet-rich plasma
hydrogels
biphasic calcium phosphate.
What bone grafts are considered the gold standard? Why? (3)
Autogenous cancellous bone graft
Properties: osteogenic, osteoconductive and osteoinductive