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5 unusual facts about prosthesis


Kingston General Hospital

Three years later, renovations made way for new facilities including laboratories, ophthalmology, prosthetics, endoscopy, renal unit and a pulmonary function lab; space for the KGH Auxiliary was also added.

Musical Prostheses

Digital musical instruments that are made in the form of Prosthesis are called Musical Prostheses.

Selly Oak

Currently, part of the hospital is used as the main treatment centre for military casualties from Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as hosting the main prosthetic limb production and fitment centre in the West Midlands.

Vasily Rodionovich Petrov

From 1923, as the result of complications from having contracted malaria, both of Petrov's legs atrophied leaving him reliant on prostheses in order to walk, but this did not deter him from actively performing onstage.

Wild Boys of the Road

They live in "Sewer Pipe City" for a while, until the city authorities decide to shut it down, in part due to Eddie's theft of a prosthetic leg for Tommy.


CAD/CAM Dentistry

Conventional prosthesis, such as crowns, have temporaries placed from one to several weeks while a dental laboratory or in house dental lab produces the restoration.

Death of Zahra Baker

Apparently, Elisa told her attorney that Zahra's prosthetic leg was left in a dumpster that she and Adam had disposed of at Fox Ridge Apartments in Hickory.

Experimental musical instrument

In 2013, a research team of McGill University came up with digital musical instruments made in the form of Prosthesis.

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

He is the brother of John R. Hetling, a bioengineer who specializes in neural prosthesis of the neural retina.

Rochette

Rochette bridge, a type of dental prosthesis popular in the 1970s invented by Alain Rochette of France.


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