What is a Custom Knee Replacement?
With traditional “off-the-shelf” total knee replacement, during the surgery we will size the femur (thigh bone) and tibia (shin bone) to get appropriate sized implants to fit the bone as closely as possible based on the bone cuts we have made.
What is Partial Knee Replacement
Many people with arthritis (loss of cartilage) at the knee have only lost cartilage in one part of the knee. For these people we are able to replace only the area where the cartilage is lost, which allows us to preserve all the ligaments and the normal bone at the knee that must be removed for a total knee replacement.
Is A Conversion Total Knee a Primary or a Revision?
As most knee surgeon’s know: patients undergoing conversion knee replacement (a total knee replacement after a prior knee surgery) have far more complications than patients who never had knee surgery before. We reviewed tens of thousands of knee replacement surgeries in hospitals across the country. The patients having a conversion total knee replacement had nearly twice as many medical complications, infections, and re-operations within 30 days.
