Stiff, achy knees? Lab-made cartilage gel outperforms the real thing

https://phys.org ^ | Aug 11, 2022 | by Robin A. Smith, Duke University

[Afterguard]

My surgeon used the MAKO process computer guided tools. Both knees were done as outpatient surgery. In at 0600 home by 1500.

[Scrambler Bob]

I watched that too. Interesting, they even shimmed things.

Later they were going to show a hip replacement. I started it. I quit. Too visceral. Too much cutting and invasion on a real human. The knee was more detached carpentry, as you said.

[Red Badger]

The result was a string so strong you could not break it (PVA hydrogen bonds like crazy).

Spiderman's web!...........................

[Red Badger]

If they take this technology and marry it to a MRI scan and a 3D printer, they could make you a new knee cap or whatever exactly like the one you have damaged, only better....................

[Red Badger]

If they can make it FDA approved..................+10% for The Big Guy...............

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hyaluronate

[italianquaker]

So far so good

[Scrambler Bob]

If they take this technology and marry it to a MRI scan and a 3D printer, they could make you a new knee cap or whatever exactly like the one you have damaged, only better....................
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My dentist has tools like this. He runs some optical measuring tool in my mouth, then I hear some grinding while his machine forms a tooth cap. Minor additional shaping, then glued on with that UV curing glue..