Holidays, in August, somewhere in France .

The young lady was run down by a car. « What a pity and during holidays, she complains. I don't drive. More, Doctor, I was on a pedestrian crossing. I was with my mummy. What about her? She is fine. Thanks.

I went to the hospital and they fixed my femur. I asked to return home as soon as possible. Do you understand, Doctor, my mummy is alone and I am still in this hospital. I cried when they tried to move my knee.

What do you think Doctor? But, I don't want to be re-operated »…

Sic

Despite the metallic plate, the femur does not heal seven months later.

The situation drags on.

During three months, the surgeon tries to convince her to be re-operated. During three months, the mother tries to make her daughter change her mind. Despite the bed-rest or the wheel-chair, despite a severe pain she refuses.

At last, she said « yes ». Thanks God.

The new metallic fixation is strong and stable.

The biomaterial (Co) is placed all around the femoral shaft (D).

Multiple vascularized bone ships (d) are surrounding the living graft.

Three months later

The truth is on X-rays.

The femoral remodelling appears: Cortices thickness is decreasing, beads fall into lines parallels to the great femoral axis.

Look how natural coral disappears!!

You are asking what the coral became. This is the good question.

You are not the only one who asks such things. Many doctors even asked it.

The material is biodegradable. It becomes a new bone, your new bone.

It belongs to you and to your proper skeleton.

Isn't it rebuilt?

Here, one year later, who could doubt about the reality of such images!

Cortices are homogenous. Few years will be necessary to get a permeable medullar canal.

What could you expect more? More then what?

Natural coral acts as an autologous bone graft.