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What is an alloplastic?

What is an alloplastic? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Artificial materials substituted for tissue grafts, used in surgery.
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An implant comprising a mass entirely coated with atelopeptide collagen characterised in that the mass is alloplastic, the implant is a breast prosthesis and the coating renders it resistant to encapsulation.
The above four cases of trauma, tumor, resorption, and ankylosis represent the indications of alloplastic prosthesis.
In adults, movement can be restored by removing the ankylotic mass with reconstruction using either a costrochondral graft or alloplastic joint prostheses.
Severe inflammatory joint disease is another indication for alloplastic TMJ prosthesis.
Thus the only available option was alloplastic implantation.
Manipulation is usually understood as an alloplastic behaviour, the attempt to modify external reality of an antipathetic kind.

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