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Does the rib implant fuse with your cartilage or your skin?

hacker85Apr 10, 2015
Does the rib implant fuse with your cartilage or your skin? Also does the new rib implant block the blood supply from the skin to the original nose cartilage? How big is the chance that the cartilage will get infected and dead inside the nose?

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