I'm an orthopedic surgeon and we're about to perform a total hip replacement for a patient ... With respect to hip replacements, the materials have improved significantly in the last decade.

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the most commonly performed and successful operations in orthopedic surgery in terms of clinical outcome, implant survivorship, and cost-effectiveness.

The perioperative mortality after hip replacement among the very elderly is certainly less than 4%, and in the majority of studies it is less than 2%. Total hip arthroplasty quite consistently ...

Friction between materials meant that they wore out ... In late 1962 Prof Charnley carried out the first successful total hip replacement, a huge achievement, before then turning his attention ...