Japan scientists eye made-to-order bones

November 23, 2008

Japanese hospitals are running a clinical trial on the world's first custom-made bones which would fit neatly into patients' skulls and eventually give way to real bones.


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gmurphy
Nov 23, 2008

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its unlikely that ordinary people would have a detailed spatial map of their facial bone structure, which this technique appears to require. There is software which can build 3d maps of buildings from photographs. Perhaps this same software could be modified to build maps of skulls from photographs of the patient before the accident?
vivcollins
Nov 23, 2008

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That is a highly impressive peace of work and of real benefit to people
kimberelly
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awesome!
flipper184
Nov 23, 2008

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Hey I've got a leg reconstructed using ground marine coral mixed with my red blood cells.Thank God for this type of research and the people who do it.And thanks to the researchers from the bottom of my heart.Aloha
barakn
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I see CLusterAble is the new sockpuppet of that spammer RedFoxOne.
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