Bone Grafts Just as there are bricks for a building, bone grafts and cartilage grafts are often utilized for facial reconstruction. Bones consist of a cortical hard component and a softer cancellous portion. Cartilage is another important structural component of the body. There are certain bones in the body which are used as donor grafts and these include cranium, ribs, tibia, iliac fibula, etc. Rib grafts are commonly used for reconstruction of nasal defects. What are rib grafts?
Ribs are the chest bones, containing the bony and the cartilage portions. These are harvested by a surgery wherein a small incision is placed over the 4th or the 5th rib. The scar is inconspicuous. The skin, tissue, muscle are gently pulled apart, the small required portion of the bone of the rib marked and removed. The donor site is closed. The piece of bone is taken and shaped or diced according to the…
