So we are planning out my surgery and my surgeon initially proposed to use a medpor like material as a graft. I quickly stopped him there and said that is a hard no for me.
He says one of the side effects to healing is that the gap is filled with fibrous tissue rather than bone.
I want the graft to be real bone. He said that is no problem and we can use either autogenous or alloplastic bone, he even suggested cow bone.
Which would be the best material for a 5mm genioplasty?
I want the end result to be 100% my bone except for the titanium plates.
From: [Autogenous bone graft vs cow bone vs cadaver bone vs nothing?]
My surgeon mentioned all these as graft materials for my genioplasty.
He says that a graft is necessary for stability + to make sure the gap doesnt fill with fibrous scar tissue ( never even heard this mentioned anywhere online ).
I told him that I dont want the gap to be filled with my own bone when it heals, not a foreign material ( he suggested medpor ). He told me even if they used my own hip bone that the bone in the gap would still have a different bone density than my original chin bone, which I guess is acceptable.
I want to maximize the likelihood that my own bone fills the gap created from genioplasty, is my surgeon just trying to aware me on possible side effects or are these actually common complications?
