Bioabsorbable pins are metabolized by the body

Materials to be used in the human body have a number of difficult and often contradictory requirements. The materials must be chemically and biologically acceptable by the human body, light weight, durable, and ideally - but of lower import - inexpensive.Here we can see a new polymer (lactic/glycolic acid copolymer - PLGA) that can simply biodegrade and be metabolized by the human body once the material is no longer needed.