An auditory representation of a personal profile of a subject is generated, by first, acquiring a plurality of personal attributes of the subject through an assessment tool. A bone shape measuring system measures the shape of bone to be supplemented by artificial bone on the basis of bone image data representing an image including the bone to be supplemented by artificial bone. The metal interconnect may be connected to a contact element, and may be maintained within the air gap using the contact element. According to another aspect, the programmatic method described above differs from another existing programmatic method \u201ctoString\u201d that generates a string representation that does not indicate generic type-specific information. The shaft extends through the housing and is coupled to an arm outside of the housing. The methods can include treating a tissue matrix with a proteolytic enzyme to produce a desired pliability of the tissue matrix andor to control the immunogenicity of the tissue matrix.