How to deal with non-union?

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onemorefoot

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Posted on Feb 10, 2017, 8:47 pm

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If you smoke everyday, you may get a non- union, is a joke!!!

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notimportant

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Posted on Feb 10, 2017, 9:06 pm

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Smoke is very bad for bone formation

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Posted on Feb 10, 2017, 9:47 pm

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On the subject of smoking, not only is tobacco use during limb lengthening potentially risky for union between the break (apparently following the fracture of any bone within the human body the average length of time for a non-smoker to form 1 cm of new bone is 69.6 days as compared with 89.4 days for smokers), I can imagine it would be an issue for the blood vessels which have already been stretched beyond their natural limit. As we all know, tobacco use is detrimental to blood flow.

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The Kaiser

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Posted on Feb 13, 2017, 1:57 am

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I am a smoker, but doctors recommend to stop it before surgery, only bad doctors will perform this surgery for smokers

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