Turns out he developed a brain tumor caused by a bone replacement for his legs.

His right femur was broken and he underwent bone replacement surgery.

They can cut and shape a variety of materials and have even been used to fashion bone replacements.

The bone replacement ceases upon a persons death.

He continued his research primarily on bone replacement, with extensions to cartilage and skin substitution.

A young British girl successfully receives a pioneering bone replacement treatment to restore her damaged spine.

As a component of nanocomposites, hydroxylapatite is finding uses as a potential new bone replacement materials.

Ultimately these ceramic materials may be used as bone replacements or with the incorporation of protein collagens, synthetic bones.

When you think of future bone replacement methods, you probably either imagine cultivated, lab-grown tissue or some manner of steel and plastic implants.

A wide range of grafting materials and substances may be used during the process of bone grafting / bone replacement.

The substance's strength and the benign behavior of carbon in the body might also make carbon-carbon suitable as a bone replacement, instead of the stainless steel now used.

In the early 1980s, experiments were done in the United Kingdom to make artificial hip joints and other bone replacements out of precision-cast Stellite alloys.

The calcium hydroxylapatite coating found on many artificial hips is used as a bone replacement that allows for easier attachment of the implant to the living bone.

Jason knew that it would take skilled surgery and bone replacement to enable the man to walk again, and wondered what his fate would be on this barbarian world.

Body sculpting would be needed, and even with the recent strides in the replication of body organs and bone replacements, he would not be active for a while.

Other applications of polyanhydrides include the use of unsaturated polyanhydrides in bone replacement, as well as polyanhydride copolymers as vehicles for vaccine delivery.

Pope John Paul II underwent a two-hour bone replacement operation in Rome after falling and fracturing his right thigh as he climbed out of his bathtub.

The San Francisco researchers found that consuming about 1,500 milligrams of calcium daily over the two-year life of the study, either through increased consumption of dairy products or use of calcium supplements, augmented bone replacement about 3 percent.

The direction of orthopedics research and product development could also be thrown into turmoil if pharmaceutical companies can successfully develop drugs to prevent osteoporosis or osteoarthritis, diseases that account for a large percentage of bone replacement surgery in older people.

While most people who need bone replacements can be adequately fitted with off-the-shelf prostheses, at least 10 percent - those with tumors, bone abnormalities or the failure of a previous implant - can be fitted only with a custom device.