Calvarial bone is permanent, it fuses with the existing bone. There will be no bone erosion. In other words: It is the perfect material for augmentation.
I think the surgeon would harvest it through a hairline incision. It would maybe leave only a little scar. But how would it be replaced on the skull? And maybe it would not be easy to shape it into the desired form.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17929512CONCLUSION:
From this present histomorphologic study, it might be concluded that grafted bone obtained from calvarial sources for sinus lift procedure presented a significantly higher degree of bone volume and vital bone volume in contrast to bone harvested from the iliac crest.
Does anyone have more information?