how might tobacco smoking affect bone repair
During the past 20 years researchers have found more evidence that cigarette smoking causes serious health problems. Now researchers at Emory University and the University of California at San Francisco have linked cigarette smoking with delayed healing of bone.he infected bone was removed in all of the 29 patients. The physicians used the ilizarov external fixation device to allow new bone to form during bone transport. The physicians took x-rays of the patients' legs at different times after the ilizarov apparatus was in place so they could assess the rate of healing.