Additional Information
About the Donor Program
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| PROCUREMENT
OF TEMPORAL BONES |
To ensure that your wish to donate your temporal bones is
carried out, the Registry maintains a 24-hour-a-day nationwide network to remove donated
tissues. Upon a donor's death, the next of kin or health care provider notifies the
Registry with a call to our toll-free hotline, (800) 822-1327, 24 hours a day.
The Registry Coordinator then makes all the arrangements for
temporal bone removal. No cost
is incurred by the donor's family or estate.
The medical professionals who remove the temporal bones donate their time or are paid by
the laboratory receiving the temporal bones. Removal of temporal bones (and brain stem) does not change the appearance
of the head, face, or outer ear. |
