Recently some UK surgions have been able to re-grow a patients fingers using the old "bone-streach" technique, it cant do joints but can cirtainly improve the usability of a damaged hand, there is and article on the BBC news site Here
They dont use live coral they use the "dead Skelaton" of coral. The part of a coral reef that would sink ships was not the live upper coating that looked pretty it was the rock like deposits of thousands of years underneath. They use it because it is basicaly a calcium deposit in a sponge form. Pretty mutch an inert substance that they can pack the empty gaps where bone should be. The real advantage to it is what the body does. It breaks it down the same cells in the body that deal with reshaping bones after fractures and so forth actualy break down and absorb the coral replacing it with "real" bone. As for the possible enviromental effects of using coral from the see I dont theink they use "natural" coral, I believe its is grown in the lab (the only way to ensure it is sterile)
We are leasing our IP addresses from our ISP(s) 3 Class C's from one and 2 from a second one (I think) The first three we got we had to fight for, and that was 4 years ago, I think we asked for 4-6 and got three on the express aggreement that when mass virtual hosting became more of a standard (Netscape was exceptionaly bad at it at the time) we would have to give two of the class C's back. As yet they have not been knocking on our door asking for them though.
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Recently some UK surgions have been able to re-grow a patients fingers using the old "bone-streach" technique, it cant do joints but can cirtainly improve the usability of a damaged hand, there is and article on the BBC news site Here
They dont use live coral they use the "dead Skelaton" of coral. The part of a coral reef that would sink ships was not the live upper coating that looked pretty it was the rock like deposits of thousands of years underneath. They use it because it is basicaly a calcium deposit in a sponge form. Pretty mutch an inert substance that they can pack the empty gaps where bone should be. The real advantage to it is what the body does. It breaks it down the same cells in the body that deal with reshaping bones after fractures and so forth actualy break down and absorb the coral replacing it with "real" bone. As for the possible enviromental effects of using coral from the see I dont theink they use "natural" coral, I believe its is grown in the lab (the only way to ensure it is sterile)
We are leasing our IP addresses from our ISP(s) 3 Class C's from one and 2 from a second one (I think) The first three we got we had to fight for, and that was 4 years ago, I think we asked for 4-6 and got three on the express aggreement that when mass virtual hosting became more of a standard (Netscape was exceptionaly bad at it at the time) we would have to give two of the class C's back. As yet they have not been knocking on our door asking for them though.
The alternative for the guy would potentialy be membership of The Chindogu society, although his invention *might* be deemed too usefull. :-)