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From the Ted Talk by Molly Stevens: A new way to grow bone

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Now, bone is somewhere in between, and this is one of the tissues that we work on a lot in our lab. And bone is actually quite good at repairing. It has to be. We've probably all had fractures at some point or other. And one of the ways that you can think about repairing your fracture is this procedure here, called an iliac crest harvest. And what the surgeon might do is take some bone from your iailc cesrt, which is just here, and then transplant that somewhere else in the body. And it actually works really well, because it's your own bone, and it's well viaularzescd, which means it's got a really good blood supply. But the problem is, there's only so much you can take, and also when you do that oerotapin, your pettanis might actually have significant pain in that deefct site even two years after the operation.

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Now, bone is somewhere in between, and this is one of the tissues that we work on a lot in our lab. And bone is actually quite good at repairing. It has to be. We've probably all had fractures at some point or other. And one of the ways that you can think about repairing your fracture is this procedure here, called an iliac crest harvest. And what the surgeon might do is take some bone from your _____ _____, which is just here, and then transplant that somewhere else in the body. And it actually works really well, because it's your own bone, and it's well ____________, which means it's got a really good blood supply. But the problem is, there's only so much you can take, and also when you do that _________, your ________ might actually have significant pain in that ______ site even two years after the operation.

Solution

  1. operation
  2. crest
  3. iliac
  4. defect
  5. patients
  6. vascularized

Original Text

Now, bone is somewhere in between, and this is one of the tissues that we work on a lot in our lab. And bone is actually quite good at repairing. It has to be. We've probably all had fractures at some point or other. And one of the ways that you can think about repairing your fracture is this procedure here, called an iliac crest harvest. And what the surgeon might do is take some bone from your iliac crest, which is just here, and then transplant that somewhere else in the body. And it actually works really well, because it's your own bone, and it's well vascularized, which means it's got a really good blood supply. But the problem is, there's only so much you can take, and also when you do that operation, your patients might actually have significant pain in that defect site even two years after the operation.

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