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There's a lot of medical technology that involves sticking metal inside of people permanently, as long as they're making it out of the right kind of metal it's
by gpm 4y ago
There's a lot of medical technology that involves sticking metal inside of people permanently, as long as they're making it out of the right kind of metal it's hard to believe it would be an issue to stick it on your skin.
- capitainenemo 4y agoThe article notes it doesn't just sit on your skin, but is designed to break down and be absorbed as the wound heals. So the amount of metal is a legit concern.
- doubled112 4y agoAnd they always get it right, like cobalt in hip replacements.
- dharmab 4y agoI once dissected a titanium knee replacement that had been implanted in a human. The surrounding tissue was steel-grey from metallosis.
- yamazakiwi 4y agoMy mother had a metal mesh implant for a knee injury in the 70's and later had to have it extracted and her entire knee replaced.
- pengaru 4y agoIsn't that a unique property of titanium and part of why it's chosen for skeletal implants? When a buddy got a damaged tooth replaced with an implant, he showed me medical scans of the titanium rod in-situ with the surrounding bone highlighted as growing into the rod as if they had an affinity for one another. It was part of a document explaining the safety and why titanium was chosen, how the body doesn't reject the material as foreign etc.
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- lapetitejort 4y agoI have metal in my body planted without my consent via an explosive device and the doctors don't care to take it out. The risk of infection outweighs the risk of it staying in my body.
- thrill 4y agoA tip of the hat to those with special medical letters for airport security scans.