Copper Brace Method: A New Technique for Reconstructing Broken Bone Fragments

• Main Authors: Jayaprakash, Paul T., Alarmebnangai, S., Hadi, Helmi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: RA Public aspects of medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/36110/1/2017-JFI-Copper_brace_method.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/36110/
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

Human skulls and other bones recovered in forensic anthropological contexts may be found broken into multiple pieces, requiring reconstruction. This article prescribes a new method, termed copper-brace met hod, that simultaneously enables retaining the matching pieces of bones and readjusting th...