Osteoplasty is the branch of
surgery
Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...
concerned with bone repair or bone grafting. It is the surgical alteration or reshaping of bone. It may be used to relieve pain associated with
metastatic bone disease. Percutaneous osteoplasty involves the use of
bone cement
Bone cements have been used very successfully to anchor artificial joints (hip joints, knee joints, shoulder and elbow joints) for more than half a century. Artificial joints (referred to as prostheses) are anchored with bone cement. The bone ce ...
to reduce pain and improve mobility. Resection osteoplasty is used in joint preserving surgery on the hip and thigh bones.
[Luca Pierannunzii, MD; Marco d'Imporzano, M]
Treatment of Femoroacetabular Impingement: A Modified Resection Osteoplasty Technique Through an Anterior Approach
''Healio Orthopedics'' (February 2007, Vol 30, Issue 2). Retrieved 11 October 2014.
See also
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Osteopathy
Osteopathy () is a type of alternative medicine that emphasizes physical manipulation of the body's muscle tissue and bones. Practitioners of osteopathy are referred to as osteopaths.
Osteopathic manipulation is the core set of techniques in ...
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Orthopedics
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...
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Osteoblast
Osteoblasts (from the Greek language, Greek combining forms for "bone", ὀστέο-, ''osteo-'' and βλαστάνω, ''blastanō'' "germinate") are cell (biology), cells with a single Cell nucleus, nucleus that synthesize bone. However, in the p ...
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Surgical procedures and techniques
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