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Trauma surgeon Bergita Ganse holds the Werner Siemens Foundation Endowed Professorship in Innovative Implant Development at Saarland University and is project coordinator for the 'Smart Implants' project. For patients with a broken shin bone, a new generation of smart orthopaedic implants is being developed that can not only monitor healing progression at the bone fracture site, but can use controlled micromotions to actively stimulate the repair process. At Saarland University, this innovative medical technology is being developed by an interdisciplinary team of medical specialists, engineers and computer scientists.
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Credit: Oliver Dietze
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