All bone graft materials are:

All bone graft materials are:

• A. Osteogenic
• B. Osteoconductive
• C. Osteoinductive
• D. Osteomyelitic

Answer: (B)

The main idea is that bone graft materials are chosen for their ability to support new bone growth by acting as a scaffold. This scaffold quality—osteoconduction—provides a porous structure and surface that allow host bone cells to migrate, grow, and mineralize along the graft material. Not all grafts supply living bone-forming cells (osteogenic) or signaling factors to induce new bone formation (osteinduction); those properties can be present in some grafts but are not universal. And “osteomyelitic” isn’t a graft property at all; it describes an infection of bone. So, the best way to describe most bone graft materials is that they are osteoconductive: they provide the framework that guides and supports new bone growth from the surrounding host bone.

The main idea is that bone graft materials are chosen for their ability to support new bone growth by acting as a scaffold. This scaffold quality—osteoconduction—provides a porous structure and surface that allow host bone cells to migrate, grow, and mineralize along the graft material. Not all grafts supply living bone-forming cells (osteogenic) or signaling factors to induce new bone formation (osteinduction); those properties can be present in some grafts but are not universal. And “osteomyelitic” isn’t a graft property at all; it describes an infection of bone.

So, the best way to describe most bone graft materials is that they are osteoconductive: they provide the framework that guides and supports new bone growth from the surrounding host bone.