This is a replica of a patient's spine, reconstructed from a CT scan, after a Florida surgeon performed an operation drilling out and removing completely the wall of bone from the left side of the spine in this spot. The upper joint and surface of the joint was also completely removed.

This operation has created permanent and un-necessary damage to what was normal bone and joint. The patient will never heal or recover from this surgical trauma. Joint can not re-create itself.

There was nothing wrong with the bone or joint before the surgery. The patient had a simple disc problem, that could have been treated without trauma to the normal parts of the spine.

The main problem is that the patient went to Florida and had this operation after hearing about laser and arthroscopic surgery to treat his herniated disc. No laser was used in removing the bone. The herniated disc, (the only problem needing treatment) was not touched, not treated at all and the patient was not helped at all by the surgery; in fact he was injured.