Bone Implant Offers Hope for Skull Deformities
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 16:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant`s bone with the biodegradable matrix could eliminate some of the operations currently used to treat the condition.