Bbc Radio special covering hips and history:
Listen while you read.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/k7lk5/

locally cached archive copy of above in mp3

The Swedish Register shows the cementless failure rate more than twice worse than cemented. The long term results of cement systems are the best data and results are very good. The data available on the internet is referenced below.


simplicity and cement. The results are good the data collection is good, why are people parroting the idea that glued hip replacement is bad? Where is the proof? All the data I have seen shows the glue to be as good as or better than glueless implants.


The cement was long used in dentistry before application in Hip Implants. Hip fracures used to be a leading cause of death because of complications from bed rest. Strokes or Pnumonia for example. Charnley perfected the cemented hip replacement to get people out of bed and wieght bearing as soon as possible to save lives. The cement-less hip replacments delay full and painless wieght bearing. What data addresses the mortality of delayed wieght bearing, or increased short term revisions in cementless implants?

The Charley femoral implant came in one size and one piece. When Dr. Charnley was asked why he did not make more sizes, He said more sizes would multiply the chances of the surgery going wrong. Where is the data to show that newer hip systems are better than the one piece designs?

Glue makes every prosthesis an instant custom fit with infinite interlocking buffered distributed contact points as compared to only three highly stressed direct points of contact of the wedged in cementless prostheses. Persistant theigh pain is a known complication of cemetless prosthesis. Large numbers of sizes of expensive prothesis, supply and obselence issues, product recalls and high costs.

Metal is has a long history of loosening and rejection over time in bone. ( Perhaps a 40% rejection rate) This has been observed in Metal Plates and screws, and resulted in the practice of removing them.

(ed. a one size fits all cemented prothesis, whose manufacture is simple, whose patents are long expired, for which there is sales competition, is not going to provide the profits of new prothesis which requires inventories of many sizes, elaborate matched tools, sophisticated manufacturing procedures and patents which inhibit competition. For the Doctors there is the need to write papers in academia, and in private practice there is the competition to seem more "modern". FXG)


Where do you buy one piece cemented prothesis? Stem and Cup in the US? or anywhere? is it time to
start manufacturing the original Charneley Cobra Style again?




Here are some issues of interest on installing cemented hips

Use single

piece glue Prosthesis as Charnley intended

Use Mini Incision (with inserting tool)

Entry to Preserve Capsule Ligaments and musculature

Preserve Femur length and bone

Bias Neck/Socket axis to avoid dislocation

Extend implant to keep located by taught preserved ligamenture

Rapid Recovery,Discharge,Exercises


References

A very good website, (much better in totality than this one) about total hips
Good comparison of cemented and cementlesss:
http://www.totaljoints.info/cemented_and_cementless_thr.htm

The Swedish Register comparison of Cemented and others is contained on page 9. The ceramics are new and suspect, one model is under recall.
http://www.totaljoints.info/ceramic_total_hips.htm



Other links and References


Review of Cemented as the "Gold Standard"
http://www.maitrise-orthop.com/corpusmaitri/orthopaedic/mo83_delaunay/delaunay_us.shtml

(cached copy of above)


30 year Cemented results
http://www.jbjs.org/abstracts/maoa03/maoa_abs1-8.pdf

(cached copy of above)


25 year Cemented results
http://www.jbjs.org/Comments/pdf/JBJA085061066.pdf

(cached copy of above)


This is a 4 year study that says no difference between cement and cementless
http://www.corronline.com/pt/re/corr/abstract.00003086-199604000-00044.htm;jsessionid=EEX9JXji1pThHM02lo2WFAonSw5P6gUhAAY1nrYVDcIWlwFAVVJ2!-469394890!-949856145!9001!-1



Radiographic review and references showing failures of all kinds.
http://www.gentili.net/thr/loosenin.htm

http://www.gentili.net/thr/types.htm



Information on Clean Room Surgery that was originally part of Charnelys procedure, its history and some ideas on inexpensivly keeping the option rapidly available in the design of new surgical rooms. Epidemic or Antibiotic resistance could make this extra precaution worth the trouble again.