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During an anterior cervical fusion, a bone graft is taken in order to fuse the vertebral. True or False?

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During an anterior cervical fusion, a bone graft is indeed used to fuse the vertebrae together, and this can come from the patient or a donor.

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True, during an anterior cervical fusion, a bone graft is often taken in order to fuse the vertebrae. The procedure involves removing a damaged disc and then using a bone graft to join, or fuse, two adjacent vertebrae together. This bone graft can be harvested from the patient's own body (autograft) or from a donor (allograft).

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