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(KSL News) -- A high-tech material is bringing hope of relief for patients with back pain.
Many have degenerated disks or an unstable spine. Surgery's usually the best option, with a graft or fusion from pelvis or cadaver bone. Reseachers say Vitoss makes that surgery easier.
It's a synthetic bone-like material that is soaked is the patient's bone marrow, so stem cells can form new natural bone.
Dr. Frank Cammisa, Surgeon: "Basically, this material will then turn into your own bone. It will heal just as if we put a structural piece of your own bone in there."
Vitoss helps bone heal and fuse faster and runs less risk of infection.
