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02.09.10

Stranger Than Fiction Department

How to grow a jaw on your back
By Gregory Mone Posted 11.22.2004 at 1:45 pm 0 Comments

He still lacks a lower set of teeth, but a German man who had his jaw removed during a painful battle with mouth cancer just received a replacement. What makes his story unusual, however, is how his jaw was created. The risk of infection and the patient’s medication prevented doctors from taking the standard approach—constructing a substitute out of bone material grafted from other parts of his body. Instead surgeons at the University of Kiel in Germany grew a new jaw in the man’s back. Here is the simplified recipe.

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