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How are injured bones repaired?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Injured bones are repaired by several methods:

* The broken ends will knit together if placed back in their original positions and kept motionless (in a cast) for a couple of weeks * Badly broken nes can be held together with metal plates and screws to alow kniting to take place * If the bones have started to knit in the wrong positions they are rebroken and repositioned as above.

* If bones are missing substirtute bonelike material can be inserted for bone to grow into the provided matrix

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Injured bones are repaired by several methods: * The broken ends will knit together if placed back in their original positions and kept motionless (in a cast) for a couple of weeks * Badly broken nes can be held together with metal plates and screws to alow kniting to take place * If the bones have started to knit in the wrong positions they are rebroken and repositioned as above. * If bones are missing substirtute bonelike material can be inserted for bone to grow into the provided matrix


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