supa
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Post by supa on Jun 28, 2011 13:58:08 GMT -5
Personally I don't feel real comfortable with the whole idea of the bovine collagen. I have been wondering if that hasn't been part of the issue with a few of the reported PMMA complications. I am much more comfortable with the Newplastic being suspended in basically purified water. I don't have any solid basis for this, just my gut feel. To the extent of my (limited) knowledge, concerns regarding bovine collagen in the past were related to the possibility of contracting a disease called "Creutzfeldt–Jakob" which causes an irreversible degeneration of the brain and ultimately, well, death. Misfolded proteins in cattle, called prions, seem (nobody knows for sure) to be at the origin of the disease once infected animals enter our food chain, or ... our penis. Now, I read somewhere that because of this risk (some of you might remember one outbreak of the disease in the 90s) there is a strict control on cattle from which collagen is taken for the production of Artefill. Forum members can doublecheck on the Internet but I am pretty sure about it.
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Post by biggerbob on Jun 28, 2011 14:11:22 GMT -5
Yes, better known as Mad Cow disease. There have also been issues in the past with swine tissue used in other medical procedures. My distrust is in the long term risk in having a different species used in my body. If I'm going to put a foreign object, such as PMMA, in my body, I don't want to further complicate that with a bovine collagen. Water I can handle.
Just my opinion though.
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