Bone & Connective Tissue
- The gift of bone and connective tissues helps individuals with various orthopedic and neurosurgical conditions.
- These tissues will be used in a variety of back, joint, and leg surgeries such as hip replacement, knee reconstruction, and spinal fusion.
- In all, over one hundred people may benefit from the gift of bone and connective tissue donation from one person.
- After the bone and soft tissues are recovered, procurement technicians replace the bone with prosthetics.