Longevity of Hip Resurfacing? With statitstics of Cementless resurfacing
When was the first modern day metal on metal hip resurfacing implant put it and has it still survived?
Here is a video of a patient that celebrated 20 years with his first metal on metal hip resurfacing. Derek McMinn disccusses the issues that he experienced with the cementless series and how he switched to using cemented shortly after, but this patient is one of the lucky ones that is still going strong after 20 years. He also lists some statistics from the Australian Registry on what other newer cem,entless devices are doing today, very interesing data to watch.