I suspect that this, not crude surgery, is the wave of the future:
The scaffold has two layers, one that mimics bone and one that mimics cartilage. When implanted into a joint, the scaffold can stimulate mesenchymal stem cells in the bone marrow to produce new bone and cartilage. The technology is currently limited to small defects, using scaffolds roughly 8 mm in diameter.
Bring it on. It’s only going to get better.
It will only be the wave of the future if there’s an incentive to innovate, something that a bureaucratic, single-payer health care system will work against.
It’s only going to get better.
It will for your great-grandchildren, you mean. Those who rediscover all this clever early work after the half-century interregnum of socialized “efficient” medical care that puts a complete stop to stuff like this.
Geez, just imagine how much money was “wasted” doing experiments that didn’t work out before this experiment succeeded. And all on the backs of consumers forced to choose between paying for the new plasma TV and having the knee surgery, ah the humanity!