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There is no such thing as 'a palliative'. Palliative means relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure. It comes from the Latin palliare, meaning to cloak. Painkillers are palliative care - they don't get rid of your bad tooth, for example, but they do make life a bit nicer in the mean time. A synthetic bone graft means exactly what it says - instead of attaching a real bit of extra bone that was chipped off from somewhere else on the patient's body, where it wasn't needed so much, they build the bone back up with something man made. If you are lucky it will be osteoconductive - that means it will work like scaffolding, kind of like a hard bit of sponge (full of little holes) that real bone can then hang on to and grow across.
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