Share this article Share this article ROSEMONT, Ill., Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A protocol involving tumor removal and immediate jaw reconstruction – replacing jawbone with viable bone from the patient's own leg – can effectively treat lower-jaw tumors with few complications in children, according to a new study. In the study published in the February issue of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the official journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), no tumors recurred after the procedure using microvascular free fibula grafts, which fill in jawbone with fibula leg bone. The grafts have their own blood supply through small blood vessels moved with the transplanted bone.