The body looks at this as toxic and if it gets absorbed, the liver deals with it mostly as a toxin rather than a nutrient. Eating the chalk will put a large quantity of this material in your body and is not a good idea at all.
This operation can be done either through the same incision as the medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction or through a larger incision around the knee. It allows the patella to sit more centrally within its groove and not tilt as the patella engages in the trochlear groove.
She was found to have a positive medial subluxation test, medial patella tracking and tilt, and pain over the medial retinaculum. MRI revealed an anteriorly placed MPFL femoral tunnel (Figure 4). After failing non-operative treatment, she was taken to surgery to address her medial patella subluxation.