Dr. David Sparks

So it can't be used without their approval.

So if they're donating their tissue, they need to know and they will sign a declaration and consent to their body being used for

a variety of different purposes.

Often it's education related.

However, some people, as far as I understand, will also sign informed consent regarding that for donating their tissue for scientific purposes, which are potentially being reused in another way.

It's not like organ harvesting and things like that, that acute phase.

But as far as I'm aware, but it's done in a different way.

I think that I don't know the exact regulatory sort of process myself, but that's kind of my understanding.

That's a very valid point, right?

Like, you know, when people think about cosmetic surgery and the lengths people will go to get a particular look and appearance.

And Australia, I think, is kind of leading the way in that regard.

We've got a very good process for assessing patients and clinically giving them good quality, robust outcomes.

which are ethical and guided with their best interests at heart.

But we use a number of these products that are cadaveric material already.

And often the first way these kind of products enter the market is with a reconstructive focus.

So an example would be rib graft.

I mean, rib allograft, which is essentially cadaver rib that's then used, the cartilage is used to reconstruct the nose, right?

In those patients, we either use their own rib, so we harvest their rib, or we

If, you know, we have a chat with them and if they would prefer to use rib from a cadaver, which the studies do suggest now that that rib actually performs fairly similarly to their own from a donor point of view, not perhaps exactly the same, but certainly has a positive outcome for a lot of patients.

So it's used regularly.