Hi Sandra:  Sorry to hear about your osteoporosis and fracture.  Whenever we have to make a decision involving surgery we have to consider all the pros and cons, and then determine if it's right for you.  I've had many spinal frax's, but vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty weren't an available option then.  I'm curious, is your surgeon only offering vertebroplasty and not kyphoplasty?  There are risks with both procedures, but from what I read kyphoplasty *seems* to be the more popular of the two.  This doesn't mean that it is definitely a better procedure, because your outcome depends on many pre-existing problems.

I can't tell you how long a compression fracture takes to heal but you can get a ball part figure from this blog I wrote on these two surgical procedures, and the link above.

Do you have kyphosis at the fracture?  Meaning a rounding of the spine at the frax site?  If so, these procedures can help to re-establish the vertebral height, which is lost during the fracture, and also help to eliminate the forward curving, and possible loss of height.

In the end you'll have to do whatever is comfortable for you.  Read as much as you can on the 2 procedures and see if any of the info helps.

Forteo is often used to speed the healing of fractures so hopefully it will help you in that respect.  I took Forteo and did really well on it, and haven't had any frax's since.

Good luck deciding what to do, and sorry I can't give you a definitive answer, only you can do that, along with your Dr.'s help.