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Understanding Hip Implant Options

Hip Implant Options

Learn about a key part of the artificial hip implant, the bearing, and how it affects the patient's long-term success.

Today's hip implant patients are fortunate. Doctors can now choose from advanced implant materials that offer advantages not available in the past. One choice doctors make when selecting the hip replacement implant for you is called the "bearing."

In this brochure you’ll discover why the bearing is so important. The good news is all of today’s bearing materials offer excellent performance. Your surgeon can choose the hip implant materials ideally suited to you.

 
 
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