Dentistry Today: Body Snatching for Replacement Bone

The New York Daily News has Body snatchers of New York, How ghouls have been stealing parts from corpses in city funeral homes.

A ghoulish ring trafficking in bones, tissue and other body parts illicitly harvested from corpses at funeral homes throughout the city is under investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, the Daily News has learned.

The enterprise potentially raked in millons of dollars selling tendons and ligaments for surgical replacement and bone for dental implants and orthopedic reconstruction procedures, sources familiar with the investigation said.

Big Bucks for Body Parts, including jaws and bone for grafting.

CNN Money has Body snatchers tied to allograft firms? Alleged New York-area ring investigated for selling parts to corpse tissue harvesters.

First, it is corpses, then aborted fetuses and then finally harvested humans.

Will cloning for parts and stem cells be too far in the future?

This reminds Flap of Michael Crichton’s COMA.

Stay tuned for more horrific revelations in the body parts business.

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