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I once dissected a titanium knee replacement that had been implanted in a human. The surrounding tissue was steel-grey from metallosis.
by dharmab 4y ago
I 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.