Bone reconstruction
This is freaky, but cool:
New jaw bone grown in man?s back muscle
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Warnke and his group began by creating a virtual jaw on a computer, after making a three-dimensional scan of the patient?s mouth.
The information was used to create a thin titanium micro-mesh cage. Several cow-derived pure bone mineral blocks the size of sugar lumps where then put inside the structure, along with a human growth factor that builds bone and a large squirt of blood extracted from the man?s bone marrow, which contains stem cells.
The surgeons then implanted the mesh cage and its contents into the muscle below the patient?s right shoulder blade. He was given no drugs, other than routine antibiotics to prevent infection from the surgery.
The implant was left in for seven weeks, when scans showed new bone formation. It was removed about eight weeks ago, along with some surrounding muscle and blood vessels, put in the man?s mouth and connected to the blood vessels in his neck.
Scans showed new bone continued to form after the transplant.
Wow!
The author really wanted to conflate stem cells into the story though. Still, the future is coming and it is both wonderful and frightening. When muscles, tendons, skin et al, are likewise replicated, oh my.
New jaw bone grown in man?s back muscle
...
Warnke and his group began by creating a virtual jaw on a computer, after making a three-dimensional scan of the patient?s mouth.
The information was used to create a thin titanium micro-mesh cage. Several cow-derived pure bone mineral blocks the size of sugar lumps where then put inside the structure, along with a human growth factor that builds bone and a large squirt of blood extracted from the man?s bone marrow, which contains stem cells.
The surgeons then implanted the mesh cage and its contents into the muscle below the patient?s right shoulder blade. He was given no drugs, other than routine antibiotics to prevent infection from the surgery.
The implant was left in for seven weeks, when scans showed new bone formation. It was removed about eight weeks ago, along with some surrounding muscle and blood vessels, put in the man?s mouth and connected to the blood vessels in his neck.
Scans showed new bone continued to form after the transplant.
Wow!
The author really wanted to conflate stem cells into the story though. Still, the future is coming and it is both wonderful and frightening. When muscles, tendons, skin et al, are likewise replicated, oh my.
Comments
It was an interesting procedure, but difficult long, and not totally safe.
Originally posted by Scott
I thought I saw a way you could use one of those 3D "printers" to do largely the same thing.
It will be a good thing, but unfortunately artificial material in the mouth lead to infection.
Originally posted by Powerdoc
It will be a good thing, but unfortunately artificial material in the mouth lead to infection.
I think the bone grew into it and eventually consumed the material.
http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/technology/reconstruction/
Originally posted by Scott
Maybe this is what I read about?
http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/technology/reconstruction/
Thanks for the link, I understand better. Hydroxyapatite is a good material for bone reconstruction. With corail it allow osteointegration. I have use it, but in the form of small particles in the past with success.
A practical curiosity: how can he have slept all that time when the bone was growing in his back muscles? It must have felt like having a kidney crash ..
Originally posted by Giaguara
Interesting..
A practical curiosity: how can he have slept all that time when the bone was growing in his back muscles? It must have felt like having a kidney crash ..
I guess it was unconfortable.
Of the other instead ... it was bad enough to keep me 2 weeks offline voluntarily. too sick to even touch a computer.