• Question: Would your body ever reject an implant and if so could you prevent that happening

    Asked by E205 to Eoin, Fiona, Ivor, Karl, Pattie on 6 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Fiona Freeman

      Fiona Freeman answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      Yes your body can reject an implant. Your immune system the defence part of your body could see it as a foreign body and reject the implant. We stop this from happening by using materials that the body likes and design them in such a way that body won’t know that it’s a foreign body.

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