New invention - Injectable Bone that looks like toothpaste

Overall Winner of the Medical Futures Orthopaedic Innovation Awards 2008
Injectable Bone
Professor Kevin Shakesheff, University of Nottingham
Michael Leek, Cheryl Hunter & Helen Cox, Regentec Ltd
This is a polymer technology to make a liquid bone for use as bone graft during surgery. A team if scientists from Nottingham have developed a synthetic, biodegradable material which has the texture of toothpaste but when injected into the body hardens within 15 minutes, at body temperature and has similar characteristics to normal bone. Approx 1.5 million bone graft procedures are performed annually worldwide. Many of these require bone to be taken from other parts of the body, or from other donors. Although there are many other synthetic materials on the market, they are difficult to shape, and the new 'injectable bone' is a much simpler procedure, allowing bone voids to be filled with ease. The material is biodegradable allowing new bone to replace it gradually.
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[@1jjadds]

hi where can i buy this liquid bone injection i would like the to be put on my broken tooth ot teeth how fast it dry ,

[@poledio9579]

Umm what