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Re: what do you guys think ??

Posted By: JamesOR
Date: Friday, 7 March 2008, at 4:33 p.m.

In Response To: Re: what do you guys think ?? (drmark)

Well, he's been the team's surgeon for many years and they're still going back to him. That says something.
I'm not sure about the new fasteners, though. I know he used two bioscrews in my tibia, and a bioscrew and pin in my femur.
I guess I'll know after I've put it to the test.

> Everyone who reads my profile must click on my user name
> and read my profile.

> There is always some kid selling a new fastener. And these
> kids will tell doc anything to get him or her to use the
> product.

> Everyone who reads my posts must first click on my user
> name and read my profile.

> A neat new minimally tested 1000 dollar fastener,
> installed, then cycled durng rehab several million times
> over the first six months will not change the immutable
> biological facts of tendon to bone healing.(while the
> fastener may be strog at time zero, at day 180 its strength
> is absoultely unknown, assuming that no human sacrifice
> experiemens were performed) Changing our DNA may do the
> trick, but nit the new fastener sold by the smiling college
> kid. This is a perfect example of how industry is
> attempting to suplant basic biological facts.

> Two years from now, everyone who either installed one of
> these or had one will be crying in thier beer, looking for
> an alternative explanation.

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