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having to harvest
patients' own nerves for
replantation.
Fracture-specific
plates are also changing
the effectiveness of
injury repair. Distal
radius plates are con-
toured to specific anato-
my in the wrist.
Similarly, in the elbow,
pre-contoured plates
eliminate having to
bend conventional
plates to fit individual
anatomy in places they
weren't really designed
to work. The anatomy-
specific plates result in
stronger initial fixations
and limit the need to
remove and replace the
hardware in the future.
OSM
Dr. Gaston (
glenn.gas-
ton@orthocarolina.com
)
is an upper extremity sur-
geon at OrthoCarolina in
Charlotte, N.C.
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