A method for enabling a balding person to avoid the appearance of baldness comprising the steps of locating sutures at strategic locations on the person's scalp, securing a scalp net to said sutures with said scalp net having synthetic fibres which simulate hair secured to the portions of the net which cover balding areas on the scalp. The scalp net has openings where it covers a person's natural hair which extends through said openings.

An implanting structure and method according to which there is introduced into a body cavity different from the final location of the implant a structure having a general outline of the implant and on which the body tissue will grow. This structure is mounted in the latter body cavity in such a way that the tissue grows on the structure only from a predetermined feeding part of the structure with the remainder of the structure being maintained out of engagement with the body tissue. After this s...

A method for treating pathological conditions of the nail, particularly onychomycosis, is described. The method comprises the breaching the protective keratin of the nail to form an opening therein, placing a caustic-keratolytic agent in the opening to enlarge it, and treating the nail through the opening with topical therapeutic agents for the pathological condition being treated, for instance, an antifungal agent for onychomycosis. In addition, thick callouses and painful plantar warts can be ...

An improved intraocular lens comprises a plastic lens body and a plurality of flexible and memory retaining non-biodegradable strands, each strand having one end secured to the lens body and the opposite end unsecured. Preferably, the strands are composed of polypropylene. In cataract surgery, following either intra or extra capsular extraction, the lens of the invention is implanted in the posterior chamber.

This invention relates to a method of growing unicorns in a manner that enhances the overall development of the animal.

Apparatus and method for positioning a prosthesis stem in a femoral canal such that a spacing exists everywhere between the prosthesis stem and the cortical bone of the femur and then filling the space between the stem and cortical bone with cement to hold the stem in the femoral canal.

A method of surgically implanting a human knee prosthesis is provided where (i) the postoperative ratio of the adjusted patellar tendon length to the prosthetic patellar height (APL/PH') is from about 1.2 to about 0.9; and (ii) the tibial component of the knee prosthesis is implanted so that the postoperative anterior/posterior center line of the tibial component is located posterior with respect to the preoperative anterior/posterior center line of the tibial plateau by an amount equal to or gr...

The present invention provides improved methods for correction of temporomandibular joint internal derangement with closed lock via small incision surgical technique. In one embodied form, the unique method comprises the steps of: (a) effecting visualization and orientation of the surgical site of a patient utilizing an arthroscopic device comprising a mechanism for prescribed calibration of the arthroscope depth; (b) effecting arthroscopic inspection of the surgical site, and in particular, the...

An osteoporosis assessment system and method. The system and method generally include an input device that can be a computer that can be further connected to a network. The system can therefore be web-based. The system receives patient data and data related to osteoporosis. The method is implemented to correlate the patient data and the osteoporosis data and output is generated that personalizes the osteoporosis data to the patient based on the valued activities of the patient, so that the patie...

The present invention provides improved methods for correction of temporomandibular joint internal derangement with closed lock via small incision surgical technique. In one embodied form, the unique method comprises the steps of: (a) effecting visualization and orientation of the surgical site of a patient utilizing an arthroscopic device comprising a mechanism for prescribed calibration of the arthroscope depth; (b) effecting arthroscopic inspection of the surgical site, and in particular, the...