Clavicle Error - Broken Collarbone

Where did you get your op done?

I had problems with the gap between the two pieces of my bone not filling in for a long time, I had a plate put in and subsequently removed, but the tissue didnt grow very fast because the location of the break didnt have much circulation.

If there was some sort of artificial bone replacement available then I'd have happily taken that. Whats the name of the material? And how does it work? I dont understand how it would have the capacity to replace / regrow existing organic bone tissue, unless the material was organic itself (and then surely there would be problems with your body rejecting the replacement tissue - which is the reason that they do a bone graft from your own hip marrow...?)

Normal bone grafting involves cutting several small pieces of hip bone (usually) out, grinding it up, and carefully inserting the coarse bone powder in-between the breaks.
I had this done 4 times on separate breaks to my Femur after a few mistakes by french surgeons (skiing accident).

Have no real idea how it works but I'd make a guess that both with the bone and artificial material, they act as a bridge between 2 pieces of bone allowing new blood vessels to form and with it new bone(?)