Zhang J, et al. - Researchers evaluated postoperative pain, functional disability, cosmesis, morphology and surgical satisfaction in ten patients who underwent iliac crest defect reconstruction with bone cement and cancellous screws (R group) and ten randomly matched patients without reconstruction (NR group) among patients who underwent large iliac crest harvesting. Findings suggested a reduction in the postoperative pain and an improvement in cosmesis through reconstructing the iliac crest defects after autogenous harvesting with bone cement and cancellous screws. They noted this technique to be simple, safe and easy to implement.