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05/11/11 4:34 PM

#119850 RE: ilpapa #119842

All technologies for hip implants have reliability issues to some degree. (If there were a technology that were free of problems, manufacturers would quickly cease making the other kinds of implants and switch to that one.) However, metal-on-metal is the only kind of implant that has the problem with metallic ions and, more important, metal-on-metal has a worse track record overall than either plastic or ceramic implants.