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Can modern surgery allow a person to replace most of his bones with artificial ones ? Provided they have greater strength and are superior to the normal bones.

>> No.2765893

Yes.

>> No.2765896

It's not something you would want to do since you wouldn't have any bone marrow...

>> No.2765903

You could do the surgery yeah. But how are you going to get the body to accept it? That is the question that plagues doctors right now?

>> No.2765911

No, while bones can be replaced the stress the surgery of replacing every bone would place on the body would be in the end counter-productive, all things considered.

>> No.2765924

You can troll customs by replacing your bones with radioactive material.

>> No.2765929

>>2765911

Clearly you have not seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

>> No.2765930

>>2765896

since, they won't suffer from amortisation you don't need it

>> No.2765944

>>2765930
I guess people don't need to regenerate blood cells either.

>> No.2765948

bones are not just there to stop you being a bag of organs and skin.

bone marrow is required from the body for a lot of reasons, and the bones themselves.

>> No.2765951

No, we don't yet have a material to replace bones with that is good enough to last for long periods of times. You know why only old people get hip replacements?

>> No.2765953

>>2765896
You could just transplant the marrow from the old bones to the new.

>> No.2765981

How do you think you get stronger by replacing your bones with artificial assuming you get blood transfusion and what not, to stay alive ?
If your artif. bones are lighter then real bones you might be able to jump higher and climb better but anything else related to strenght is more a matter of muscles then bones.

>> No.2765997

Modern surgery? No. Wait a few decades. Maybe a century.

>> No.2766002

>>2765981
I think he meant making them of a material that's harder to break.

Bones are designed mainly to withstand the compressive loads of running, jumping, carrying heavy things, etc. but tensile loads damage them rather easily.