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1^5^ sas ??^S PRECISION REPRODUCTION From detailed illustrations to rough sketches high teck manuals to your initial ideas . . . KINKO'S CAN HANDLE IT ALL! J WHnHWWHBBaHMBMBnHHBHHanaBBKHDaHnannHBBMiaiiiHnaHaBB Homecoming *84 | | TtliU W1ZAKD Ut UZ Outdoor Movie Wednesday October 3 | Doors open at 8:00 Wizard of Oz Theme Costume Contest | | Come dressed as your favorite character and get in free. $ $ Prizes will be awarded that night. if A 8 r IC1U A ;lj iji (rain location Russell House Ballroom) jj There's no place like home ... arolina J; 1 Homecoming '84 | _ ?^ Mrs. Winner's adds a winning touch to Gamecock football. We're just across the river on Knox Abbott Drive. Come see us: we're already neighbors, we'd If m w isl v D i a a m a B BF a ^ 4 ^ rm net: .\J\J KJPM. Si 9 Pc. Family Pack | 15 Fes. Chicken B I One coupon per person per visit. I Please present coupon when ordering. I Good thru II 31 84. 739 Knox Abbott Drive \ __ _. -J Transplant technology New hip de By Jennifer Wooten Arthritis victims who need artificial hips now have a favorable choice over traditional cement implants because of a USC medical professor. Dr. Einmett Lunceford, professor of orthopedics at USC School of Medicine, has developed a hip implant made of a porous metal, with tiny openings that give its surface a sandpaper-like texture. An advantage of fhe porous-coated implant is that the openings in the surface stimulate bone grown, Lunceford said, bonding the bone and implant together. wmi me iraumonai meinoa 01 replacing hips of arthritic patients, the cement-bone relationship was not always favorable, resulting in bone loss or cracking of the cement," Lunceford said. "So this new implant is an effort to avoid that complication by having the bone heal in and around the prosthesis (implant) to lock it into the body." Lunceford said with his method, the at tachment of the implant to the bone "tends to get stronger as time progresses, while the implant that's inserted with methametacolaid, or the cement', is the best it's ever going to be the day that it's put in. It starts going downhill from that point on." Average patients take about three months before they can move and do well on their own, Lunccford said. Older patients may take longer to heal than younger ones, but patients, regardless of age, can heal successfully if they are in good general physical condition. The only patients who cannot receive the implant are those with infectious arthritis. Lunceford said a person's body cannot tolerate both infection and an implant. Lunceford said the success rates of the two types of implants are about the same. "The ditlerence is thai we hope that with the bone growing into it (the implant), it will last longer and be better tolerated by the body than patients who have the cement in place." BASKE TRY) I October I 6:45 .1 / in trie v. Stop by to fill o pick-up physic basketball office I Deadline For further info. F aided iveloped Imolant . /?% \ I n?| I Plastic hip \ \ W4 A I ISP nrn. />\ K ^ ^ -V, K lhe device / ^ / >v / ^ / M\ / . I It is unknown how long the implant will hold up in the body, Lunceford said. In laboratory conditions, however, it has been proven to last more than 40 years. There is one major disadvantage to the new type of artificial hip, Lunceford said. "If something goes wrong with the patient or the prosthesis, it's more difficult to remove because the bone grown into it makes it technically difficult." Lunceford developed his concept of the more effective hip implant in the late sixties. He began working on its design with the help of bioengineers at Clemson University and the University of Toronto in Canada. Initially the implant was tested in guinea pigs, dogs and ponies. When study of the implant in humans began, Lunceford and various hospitals testing the procedure worked under the sponsorship of the Food and Drug Administration. 1 [EN'S rABSITY mm if v A DHuU IUTS in* !/*/%/! I iD, iy?^ p.m. "oliseum ?ut applications ? :al form in the in the Coliseum. Oct. 10 'lease Call 7-4197