Bone Graft Materials in Late Secondary and Tertiary Alveolar Bone Grafting: A Review

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Introduction: Bone grafting of the alveolar cleft is necessary to facilitate unhindered growth of maxillofacial complex and eruption of permanent teeth in defect region when not congenitally missing. Secondary grafting undertaken during mixed dentition helps achieve these two functions. However, due to varying reasons, socioeconomic concerns being one of them, many patients do not undergo this procedure and report at a time when late grafting is the only option to overcome the deficit bone.