No More 'Metal on Metal' Hip Implants?

• Date: March 09, 2010
• Source: admin

Known as ‘metal on metal’ implants, this hip replacement procedure was one of the most admired one and has been opted for by about one-third of the approximately 250,000 hip replacements performed annually in USA, but result of this replacement has now set off an alarming bell amongst the patients and doctors. Recent researches have shown that this popular mode of hip replacement is causing severe pain, inflammation and death of tissues in the hip joint in some patients. Result of which is another surgery in two or three years to remove the implant.