PHOTO: Hip bones are cleaned and ground down into 'Crunch' after surgery. (ABC: Ginny Stein)
MAP: Sydney 2000
Bones from hip replacement transplants give new life (ABC Australia)
In the business of bone donation, old hips are giving new life to people needing reconstructive surgery.
More than 33,000 hip replacements are performed each year in Australia.
VIDEO: Bones from hip replacement transplants give new life(Lateline)
If the patient ticks the bone donation box, part of the hip is taken away to be processed and turned into bone grafts.
When a hip is replaced, the ball at the top of the...
