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human
If you break your bones to a point you need metal rods and bolts, after the bone heals do the metal implants make your bones more sturdy & less susceptible to breakage?
gpt
Nope. The metal won't break, so it is technically more sturdy there... but the attachment points through the bone weaken them quite a bit, leaving weaker points. To some degree time can fix that.

Modern implants get better and better but thin bones won't become stronger after drilling holes through them. They can even split, then you're further from home.

Implants with specific surface structures and eg bone matrix proteins are interesting research topics!