The topic of the pressure disc prosthesis is now viewed very critically. In particular, the early occurrence of loosening has made the pressure disc prosthesis numerically niche.
The future will tell whether the pressure disc prosthesis will disappear from the market or innovations will help it achieve a renaissance.
English: hip prosthesis
The word "artificial hip joint " is to be equated with the designation “total hip joint endoprosthesis”.
In the context of a hip prosthesis implantation operation, the human hip joint replaced by an artificial one, which in principle consists of the same parts. This means: In the course of such an operation you replace the joint socket, the Femoral neck and the femoral head.
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In the Pressure disc prosthesis the "prosthesis socket" is anchored in a special way.
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The hip joint is one of the joints that are exposed to the greatest stress.
The treatment of the hip (e.g. hip arthrosis, hip impingement, etc.) therefore requires a lot of experience.
I treat all hip diseases with a focus on conservative methods.
The aim of any treatment is treatment without surgery.
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Even if this form of prosthesis anchoring was developed in Switzerland around 20 years ago, it has only been on the market for several years. First, a pilot study on enlightened patients had to deliver test results.
Compared to the other (conventional) prosthesis models, this form of prosthesis anchoring offers some advantages, but also known disadvantages, which will be discussed below
The replacement operations listed under 3 are usually necessary after about 10 to 15 years. If an implantation takes place at an advanced age, the lifespan of such a prosthesis is not really relevant.
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$config[ads_text3] not foundHowever, if a younger patient needs a prosthesis, the likelihood is that one is necessary Change operation clearly increased. For a thirty-year-old patient, this can mean two or possibly three alternate operations. However, since the anchoring options decrease with every change operation, the pressure disc prosthesis can initially serve as an alternative. If such a prosthesis is initially implanted, it remains Bone substance as an anchoring option for conventional hip prosthesis models and thus the quality of the subsequent replacement operations also increases.
However, the pressure disc prosthesis shows - and this should be noted critically at this point - in comparison to the classic prosthesis models, a loosening rate that occurs much earlier in some cases.
Through this increased loosening rate if the replacement operation is necessary prematurely, this prosthesis model is again used significantly less frequently than it was in the 1990s.
As already mentioned, this type of prosthesis is therefore recommended for young patients who want to postpone the implantation of a conventional model with this type of prosthesis.
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