RE: Bones and Bone Marrow
July 28, 2019 at 10:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2019 at 10:36 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Bone will regrow if parts of the living bone is still there and there is a matrix or scaffold which tells the bone where to grow.
This is how broken ends of bones can stitch them selves together.
Missing bone will not regrow if the bone tissue has died, or the bone is removed all together.
The notion that a removed rib will grow back is bullshit.
If the rib is completely removed. There will be nothing in the body that would be signaled to grow new bone there. If the rib is partially removed, and if the remaining portion of the rib is still supplied with blood and alive, the live bone may attempt to regrow, but unless a new matrix or scaffold is placed where the missing bone had been, the remaining bone tissue would have no way to develop into a new rib. It would simply grow a lump to close off the severed end of the remaining bone, sort of like bone scar tissue rather than new bone.
Implanting matrix or scaffolding to enable missing parts of bone or organ to grow back is on the cutting edge of reconstructive medicine.
This is how broken ends of bones can stitch them selves together.
Missing bone will not regrow if the bone tissue has died, or the bone is removed all together.
The notion that a removed rib will grow back is bullshit.
If the rib is completely removed. There will be nothing in the body that would be signaled to grow new bone there. If the rib is partially removed, and if the remaining portion of the rib is still supplied with blood and alive, the live bone may attempt to regrow, but unless a new matrix or scaffold is placed where the missing bone had been, the remaining bone tissue would have no way to develop into a new rib. It would simply grow a lump to close off the severed end of the remaining bone, sort of like bone scar tissue rather than new bone.
Implanting matrix or scaffolding to enable missing parts of bone or organ to grow back is on the cutting edge of reconstructive medicine.
