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Can a mother’s bone help rebuild her child’s damaged bone? Doctors at Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital have used a mother’s own fibula (a bone in the lower leg) to rebuild damaged bones in children suffering from serious infections and cancer.
One of the most encouraging cases is that of a 16-year-old girl whose right thigh bone was severely damaged by a long-term infection in 2021. Doctors rebuilt her bone using her mother’s fibula. Five years after the surgery, the reconstructed bone is growing well, and the girl is walking and living her life.
The surgical team was led by Dr. Aashish Chaudhry, Director & Head, Orthopaedics & Robotic Joint Replacement, along with Dr. Arun Kumar Giri, Director of Surgical Oncology, and Dr. Abhishek Kumar Sambharia, Consultant Orthopaedics, at Aakash Healthcare.
When the first child came to the hospital in 2021, the team studied available medical literature and found that maternal fibula grafts had been used in children mainly for upper-limb problems. The doctors decided to try the technique for the lower limb as well, giving the child a chance to avoid amputation. The girl had chronic osteomyelitis, a long-term bone infection, in her right femur, with an antibiotic spacer already in place. In 2022, a 14-year-old girl with a long-term thigh bone infection and a fracture that had healed in the wrong position was treated using the same technique.
Since then, four more children from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have received treatment, including three children with cancer.

A five-year-old boy from Uzbekistan underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumour from his right thigh bone on 10 September. Doctors rebuilt a long section of the bone using a piece of his mother’s fibula and secured it with a plate. Five days later, an 11-year-old boy from Uzbekistan, diagnosed with chondroblastic osteosarcoma of the lower right thigh bone, underwent tumour removal and bone reconstruction using his mother’s fibula and a custom-made plate. Both children had been advised to undergo above-knee amputation in their home countries. Their families travelled to Delhi for treatment.
In September, a three-year-old boy from Tajikistan, who had completed five cycles of chemotherapy for Ewing’s sarcoma, underwent surgery to remove a tumour from his right upper-arm bone. Doctors rebuilt the bone using a piece of his mother’s fibula.
Another patient, an Uzbek girl of around 11 years, had an infected, non-healing congenital condition affecting the bone in her left lower leg. In April, doctors removed the infected bone and old implants. In May, they used her mother’s fibula for reconstruction, along with ankle fusion and a custom-made plate.
Speaking about the first case, Dr. Aashish Chaudhry said that when the first mother offered her bone, the team had very little medical information to guide them. After studying the available research, they decided to try the technique in the leg because the child deserved a chance to avoid amputation. Five years later, the girl’s bone is growing, and she is walking and living her life.
Dr. Chaudhry explained that a mother’s bone does more than fill a gap. It provides living bone tissue that can help rebuild the child’s damaged bone. He recalled a mother asking before surgery, “Is my bone strong enough for my child?” He said that mothers give their children life, and in these cases, they have also helped them walk again.
The technique may also offer practical benefits when a child’s own bone has been destroyed by disease and a suitable graft is needed. During these procedures, both the mother and child were closely monitored. The doctors emphasised that the mother’s safety and recovery are just as important as the child’s treatment.
In this interview with Dr. Aashish Chaudhry, we discuss what Fibula Grafting is, the medical conditions in which it may be used, how a mother’s fibula can help rebuild a child’s damaged bone, and how this approach may help some children avoid amputation.
Radio Dwarka,
India’s First Online Community Radio,
15 October 2026, Thursday