Break a Bone Badly? You Could Be a Candidate for This Innovative 3-D Printed Medical Device (J&J DePuy - Scott Larsen)
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The Trumatch® Graft Cage – Long Bone is a cutting-edge device that could revolutionize trauma care—and help improve outcomes for patients who have the kind of catastrophic bone injuries that can happen in car accidents.
A long, painful recovery. Amputation. Those are words no patient ever wants to hear. But for people who've experienced an extremely serious bone injury—say, a fall from a great height, a bone tumor or a vehicular accident—these can be very real scenarios.
But a groundbreaking innovation from DePuy Synthes, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, is poised to help people suffering from such traumatic injuries.
It's called the Trumatch® Graft Cage – Long Bone—a first-to-market implant that's able to be absorbed into the body and 3-D printed in just 10 days, making it highly customizable to a patient's anatomy. It works by supporting bone grafts, which act as fillers or scaffolds to aid new bone growth.
A lot of other implants for such injuries are shaped like ...
