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Lorath Tech: Bone grafts and replacements.

DocTomoe

DocTomoe

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Bone Structure metallic grafting and Replacement.

Designer: Lorath Psionics House Medical Division in cooperation with Lorath Shaman House.

Information: Through the use of advanced surgical technology metallic components are used to replace or strengthen bones.

Technical Information: Advanced surgical techniques would be used to grafting metallic supports to bones or replace bones all together. The method of this technology when used to graft metals to the bones of the subject is to place porous pieces of supporting metal to the intended bones, the pores in the metal will allow for nutrients to pass to the original bone, and allow the marrow inside of the bone to release it's blood. The process of grafting the metal to the bone is extensive, first the subject's skin would have incisions placed along the length of the limb or other part that is to be modified, after the incisions are completed the muscle tissues in the area would have electrical currents passed through them at the proper frequency to cause them to become very loose and relaxed thus allowing them to be moved out of the way of the graft. The graft is accomplished by treating the bone with a specially formulated glue-like gel, after the gel is placed directly upon the bone, small metallic plates are carefully placed upon the gel and the gel holds the metallic plate in place. After each plate is in place in the graft area another gel is put into place, this gel is comprised of a complex calcium solution that then forms between each metallic plate and over each plate thus holding them in place against the bone and over time the natural development of the bone will incorporate the plates into the bone structure. The plates are put into place to prevent the severing and breaking of limbs in combat. The bone replacement process is carried out in the same manner as the grafting process in the beginning, after the incisions are in place and the muscles are moved the process differs. When the bone is exposed it is then removed carefully as to not harm the blood vessels and muscle structures. After the bone is removed it is then replaced with a carbon composite bone constructed with a series of pores, before the carbon-bone is placed into the intended area the carbon-bone is injected with the marrow from the original bone. When the carbon-bone is prepared it is then placed into the spot that the original bone occupied. When the placement is completed the muscles and skin are placed back into their proper locations. The carbon composite bones are intended to be stronger than diamond and allow for the subject that the bones are implanted in to endure cutting damage, crushing damage, and impact damage much greater than normal bone structures, yet at the same time be incredibly light.
 
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Approved. Sounds painful. :/
 
I would like to remind everyone that replacing most of the bones in the body would be fatal because of the lack of marrow to produce blood. In addition the grafting process would create incredibly weak bones and almost certainly lead to death if a person was hit. The thin layer of bone over the metal would undoubtedly fracture sending small bits of bone into the bloodstream and elsewhere which can cause various medial problems from brain death to just normal death.

Replacing a few bones wouldn't be to detrimental to health but past a certain point the lack of blood creation would drop the red blood count and start killing the body and brain.

The side effects of these operations should also probably be included.
 
Perhaps there should be included another cybernetic device which is implanted and which can do everything that marrow would normally do in the body. That would at least get around that problem.
 
I don't know if I can, but I recommend this tech for un-approval.

Even with synthetic marrow (and the marrow that is re-injected into the bone) you would still run into problems like blood leeching metals from the pores in the metal plates and reduced calcium metabolism. In the end this process would have the opposite effect of what is intended by making the person it is preformed on less capable in combat and more susceptible to injury.
 
You could always coat the metal plates and replacement bones with something like Teflon(tm)... which is a carcinogen. ... There is always a price for power. :)

Some coating like Teflon is a must though, for the reasons Zack mentioned. Currently (in the real world), nothing that goes deeper than subdermal gets implanted without Teflon coating, I believe.
 
Even if you did coat the bones with Teflon it is still incredibly likely that being struck by any serious amount of force would cause the small bits of bone growing into the pores or around the plates to fracture or break off entirely. The small fragments would likely then enter the blood stream or something to that effect and move around causing serious injuries to the internal bits of the leg or moving upward to the heart or even up to the brain to cause a stroke.

I still think that this tech should be un-approved because it lacks any discription on what would happen after the surgery.
 
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