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Anonymous said:
Hey - you got the number wrong - it's only 19.89% failure at 9 years!

The great news is that the 9 year revision rate for Corail with Pinnacle, a metal head and a poly liner is 2.62%

That's the one I sell and that is a GREAT number. I thought just liner dissociations would have been worse than 2.62% so I'm pretty happy with that.
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Do you sell marathon or altrx?
 


















Anonymous said:
Hey - you got the number wrong - it's only 19.89% failure at 9 years!

The great news is that the 9 year revision rate for Corail with Pinnacle, a metal head and a poly liner is 2.62%

That's the one I sell and that is a GREAT number. I thought just liner dissociations would have been worse than 2.62% so I'm pretty happy with that.
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2.62 is not a "Great" number. And it's a skewed one at best. Good luck.
 
























This continues to pop up. 3 for me in the last 2 months. One we attributed to a proud screw head, but the other were unexplained. Metal head/standard 36 poly in all three. I've got a guy who does 100 hips a year for me considering dumping Pinnacle/Summit for Synergy/R3 because of this. Frustrating.
 


















Hi. I am in the UK and had a THR in December 2012. In February 2013 it squeaked for a few days then weeks later squeaked every time I moved. The surgeon found that the cup had partially come out of the cup and was badly distorted. Several lugs were also broken off. The whole joint had to be replaced.
Has anybody else suffered the same, and what result if you took DePuy OR your surgeon to Court, please?
 


















Have seen 4 cases over last 3 years where liner was loose in the cup. What was interesting was in everyone of them the Depuy rep did not want the product back to return to Depuy for testing.
 






Anonymous said:
I've heard smith and nephew liner is very difficult to insert....haven't experience any problems with altrx
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Lost some anterior business to SN R3 system. Per surgeon it's way easier then pinnicle combo and he can insert liner just pushing by hand, not hard at all. Hopefully we see some R3 liner issues but looks like a solid product that's gonna pick off business until we fix this issue. It's defenitly a problem that's seen in many territories and being reported with no feedback. Can we Please get some feedback from engineers, not excuse making marketing....
 






Depuy may have problems, but seating the liner is definitely not one of them. Never seen a surgeon have any issue with it. I'm sure some do, but I've heard from SNN surgeons complain about the difficulty of impacting the liner.

Also, do you really want to be able to impact a liner by hand? I'd prefer to impact to make sure. Just my thought.
 






I will say as a rep of 23 years that has worked for 2 different companies, sometimes the docs create the problem. In testing the stability of the liner they loosen it by pulling on it whether with a clamp or with the tools each company provides to loosen the liner. If it happens it usually will show up during trial reduction. I have heard many of my higher volume surgeons say that they have revised multiple pinnacle cups over the last 5 years due to liner issues
 






Anonymous said:
Have seen 4 cases over last 3 years where liner was loose in the cup. What was interesting was in everyone of them the Depuy rep did not want the product back to return to Depuy for testing.
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And you weren't the rep in those cases? Usually the rep is instructed to not return the implant by either the office or the hospital
 






Can't speak for Depuy, but company I work for which I will not divulge asks us to report and return all failed devices whether or not it's implant or surgeon error. Grant it it is not always doable. Many times the implants are sent to pathology and cannot be retrieved
 












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