B. Szostakowski, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute — Oncology Center, Warsaw, Poland

M. DeMaio, Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

B. Szostakowski, Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute — Oncology Center, Roentgena 5, 02-781 Warsaw, Poland, [email protected]

A note from the Editor-in-Chief: I am pleased to present the next installment of ArtiFacts. In this month’s guest column, Drs. Bartek Szostakowski and Marlene DeMaio review the earliest surgical applications of ivory, which at one time was considered a “bone substitute.”

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