Abstract: It has specific superiority to use autogenous cancellous bone as bone harvesting source to repair alveolar cleft. Now the major autogenous bone harvesting donor site studied in clinic and element are iliac bone, rib, fibula,
tibia, skull, zygomatic bone, chin. These years many scholars have done a lot of clinical and elementary study in using tibia as donor site, involving the methods, the site and the instrument of bone harvesting, and they compared the postoperative complications between using tibia and using conventional donor site. The article reviews the study of using tibia as bone harvesting donor site to repair the alveolar cleft.