why aren’t metal plates removed when the bones are fully healed?

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why aren’t metal plates removed when the bones are fully healed?

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I had a simple fracture of my femur. Repaired by open reduction (go in through the side and put the bone ends together) and a long rod inserted from the hip end down through the marrow. A year later they pulled the rod out, a simple operation. I was 17. They told me if I’d been 70 they’d leave it in, but I needed the marrow, so they removed it.