A man who lost his jaw to cancer gave up a piece of his own bone which was impregnated with a growth hormon and put into a jaw-shaped cage. Then, the whole thing was put into the muscle under his shoulderblade to be fed, for lack of a better word, by his own body. The jaw bone was implanted and the patient was able to eat solid food for the first time in nine years!
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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.
Quote:The information was used to create a thin titanium micro-mesh cage. Several cow-derived pure bone mineral blocks the size of sugar lumps were 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.
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