What are the categories of Bone Graft materials ?
Bone Graft materials can be categorized in following four types. • Autograft or autogenous bone graft i.e. patients own bone. • Allograft or allogenic bone graft i.e. of same species. • Xenograft or xenogenic bone graft i.e. of two different species (bone of bovine origin). • Alloplast or alloplastic i.e. Synthetically derived, which could either be hydroxyapatite, ß-TCP or any formulation thereof, bone graft.
