Japan scientists eye made-to-order bones

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.

Basically defected bones can fixed by transplanting real bones or using substitutes, materials such as ceramic substitutes. New bone transplant using powdered calcium phosphate, the elements that make up actual bones.

The new implants are called CT Bone as they are crafted using the patient's computer tomography (CT) data, a form of medical imaging, in order to accurately use these CT bone implants. CT data copies details like jaw, chin and other details of the skull down to one millimetre (0.039 of an inch), a level significant enough to make a difference in human faces.

These custom bones can be generated within hours from for example an accident, but this kind of new technology is only currently used on skull bones because, unlike body parts, it doesn't have to carry the body weight.

The new implants can even replace your own bone, which was not possible in the past. Its pretty interesting how things have evolved and how technology has gotten so far that medical issues can be solved quicker and efficiently. We have gotten to a point where computers can do things like save peoples exact facial skeletal structure, and if you think about it, that is pretty far, and those can be applied to machines in order to create those exact features, for example the new transplants CT Bones.

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Its really interesting.