Bone Grafting Materials

Bone grafting materials used in dental implant procedures typically come in three categories: autogenous bone, cadaveric or animal bone and synthetic bone materials.

Autogenous bone, meaning your own bone, can be used in dental grafting procedures. This requires an additional surgical procedure in which some of your own bone is harvested from another part of your jaw, hipbone (iliac crest) or tibia for insertion into the defect area.

Cadaveric bone comes from human sources. While bone banks follow specific safety procedures, recent attention in the U.S. has been focused on unethical suppliers who take bone from cadavers without adequate permission or disease monitoring. There are also increasing concerns about the safety of bovine bone because of the possibility of transmission of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (Mad Cow Disease).

Cerasorb is a synthetic ß-tricalcium phosphate product and is the result of 20 years of research and development into better bone regeneration materials. It is completely resorbed by your body while simultaneously creating new bone. As a result, it produces bone without an extra harvesting surgery or the risk of disease transmission from cadaveric bone. It has been used successfully in more than 350,000 bone grafting procedures.