About Bone Grafting Campbell CA

What is Bone Grafting?



Types of Bone Grafts

Autogenous Bone Grafts:

Autogenous bone grafts, also known as autografts, are made from your own bone, taken from somewhere else in the body. The bone is typically harvested from the chin, jaw, lower leg bone, hip, or the skull (Although only bone from the mouth is used at the Ueno Center when indicated). Autogenous bone grafts are advantageous in that the graft material is live bone, meaning it contains living cellular elements that enhance bone growth.


Allogenic Bone:

Allogenic bone, or allograft, is dead bone harvested from a cadaver, then processed using a freeze-dry method to extract the water via a vacuum. Unlike autogenous bone, allogenic bone cannot produce new bone on it’s own. Rather, it serves as a framework or scaffold over which bone from the surrounding bony walls can grow to fill the defect or void.  With the new allografts on the market, bone regeneration is highly predictable with these donor grafts.

Xenogenic Bone:



Stem Cells and Growth Factors:

With the modern advances of bone grafting materials today, we are extremely lucky to be able to work with both stem cells and growth factors.  These are safe bone graft additives that can stimulate more and faster bone growth and at the same time reduce swelling and healing time.  They come with an added cost, but are definitely beneficial in larger and more difficult bone grafting cases.

Synthetic Bone:

For those that do not like allografts or xenografts, we do offer synthetic bone.  This man made bone graft substitute can be used, but has a lower efficacy than the previous grafts mentioned.