Your browser may allow you to search this web page for a keyword or phrase by using the find command. My own bone was used for the graft. I saw my surgeon last week, who told me the fusion isn't fusing. Failed fusions occur in 5 percent to 35 percent of grafts. The cause can't always be determined but the quality of the graft, circulation and blood supply to the area, along with a patient's age, general health and immune system all can play a part.
Some bone grafts take longer to fuse for unknown reasons.
Other than using a bone stimulator and taking calcium, your options right now are limited to repeat surgery to either debride the graft, in the hope that it will fuse, or to place orthopedic screws to hold the graft. There are new treatments on the horizon, including something called osteoinductive bone protein extract, that may eventually improve the success of bone grafts. My back, between my shoulder blades, suddenly became quite painful, so much so that movement was agonizing. I hadn't done anything I can remember to injure it. It eased after a few days, but then my right hip joint and inside of my upper thigh, in the area where my leg is attached, became painful.