Study documents the trend towards ceramic-on-poly hips

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NEW (POSITIVE) CERAMIC-ON-POLY DATA (Orthopedics This Week)
So how have different bearing surfaces “trended” of late? Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles set out to determine how selection of such total hip arthroplasty (THA) surfaces has varied from 2007 through 2014.
The study was titled, “Total Hip Arthroplasty Bearing Surface Trends in the United States From 2007 to 2014: The Rise of Ceramic on Polyethylene,” and appears in the January 9, 2018 edition of the Journal of Arthroplasty.
Jay R. Lieberman, M.D., an orthopedic sur...

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