![The device, a postage-size piece of titanium, is implanted in cricoid cartilage in the neck.
— UC Davis Health System](https://i0.wp.com/brnskll.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Transdermal-medical-SED_270x180.jpg?resize=270%2C180&ssl=1)
UC Davis Health System
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The test patient even mentioned that it looks like jewelry.
It will be worth following up with to see if the marsupial pocket created by the base allows infection and erosion of the cartilage it was sutured to in the long term.
Here is an article about an interesting medical development based on transdermal body decoration.