Bio-absorbable Bone Screw Market
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Bone Screws are used to fix bony fragments. Bone screws are used in orthopedics for various purposes such as bone to bone fixation, soft tissue fixation to bone, and attachment of implants to bone. Bone screw consists of head, shaft, core, and thread. Bone screws are used in cortical bone, cancellous bone, metaphyseal region of bone, distal humerus, trochanteric area, and sometimes in the ankle where the bone is dense. Bio-absorbable screws are automatically absorbed in body and are widely used in anterior cruciate ligament surgery. Biodegradable bone screws offer advantages such as MRI imaging of the bone is possible post-surgery, it has no long term interference with its surrounding tissues, eradication of bone screw removal surgery, reduced risk of metal screw related infections, and less amount of stress in the surrounding tissues.