Evaluation of secondary alveolar bone grafting procedures

The most common procedure followed globally for the bony repair of a cleft palate is by grafting the iliac crest in the defect. The objective of this study was to evaluate the success of the alveolar bone grafting procedures carried out at our institute by using the Berglands Index. A total of 12 patients were evaluated by taking periapical radiographs of the grafted site 6 months post surgery. It was found that 77% of the patients had a bone level of more than 3/4. It was also deduced that the success rate of the grafted bone was 100% when the bone was grafted before the eruption of the canine while success rate dropped to 40% in patients in which the procedure was performed after the eruption of the canine