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Limb Lengthening Surgery => Limb Lengthening Discussions => Topic started by: Dingo on September 25, 2014, 10:14:43 AM

Title: What happens to the bone after nail removal?
Post by: Dingo on September 25, 2014, 10:14:43 AM

When someone does internals or LON/LATN, a nail is inserted into the bone (tibia or femur).

For this a hole in the bone must be drilled through the knee or the side of the hip.

Moreover, if the clear internal diameter of the bone canal is too small for the diameter of the internal nail, then the inside of the bone must also be reamed making the thickness of the bone's tube walls thinner/weaker.

What happens after you remove the nail 2 years after your surgery? Are you left with an open hole in your bone and a bone "tube" with thinner/weaker walls for the rest of your life?

Or does everything fill up again and go back to normal after removal of the nail?

Title: Re: What happens to the bone after nail removal?
Post by: GROWtalORdieTRYING1 on September 25, 2014, 10:23:01 AM

I too have wondered about this aspect in reaming. good question.

does the reamed bone refill?

Title: Re: What happens to the bone after nail removal?
Post by: Metaller on September 26, 2014, 06:23:04 PM

I am also wondering about this.

Anyone who has done the surgery who can answear?

thank you!

Title: Re: What happens to the bone after nail removal?
Post by: Wannabegiant on September 26, 2014, 09:47:46 PM

Im pretty sure the holes in the bone from the pins of external fixators, heal eventually. So the hole they make for the nail removal would most likely heal too. Though If the bone gets thicker again after reaming it and then removing the nail im not sure..