About OPM The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) administers the Merit System of Personnel Administration and acts in both a service and regulatory capacity. OPM is headed by the Administrator, who is appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Oklahoma State Senate. The Merit System Agencies, positions, and employees that are subject to the Merit System are classified.
More formally, chiroplasty, or cheiroplasty, is a term which refers to plastic surgery of the hands. The term combines root word chir(o), which means hand, and the suffix -plasty, which means surgical repair.
Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are radiologic procedures for the treatment of the intense pain caused by vertebral compression fractures that is refractory to conventional therapies such as analgesic use, bed rest, and bracing.ertebroplasty and kyphoplasty involve the injection of an acrylic cement under local anesthesia and either fluoroscopic guidance or, less commonly, CT guidance to control the pain of vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis, tumors, and trauma (see image below).