What is New in Knee Replacement

If you are considering knee replacement surgery, there are new developments under study which can help enhance the quality of life. These include:

• Use of cementless parts that allow new bone to grow into a porous prosthesis and hold the parts in place, creating a biologic fixation
• Use of bioactive joint surfaces such as hydroxyapatite
• Use of mobile-bearing knee replacement in which a polyethylene insert creates a dual-surface articulation by articulating with the femoral as well as tibial components. This will enhance the life of the implant by reducing wear.
• Development of systems with improved kinematics
• Better fixation
• Use of navigation-guided surgery that involves the use of navigation-guided instruments with smaller incisions and less tissue damage. 

Only suitably-trained surgeons with various skills offer these procedures.

Related Topics

• Total Knee Replacement
• Robotic Assisted Knee Replacement
• Unicompartmental/Partial Knee Replacement
• Revision Knee Replacement
• Minimally Invasive Knee Joint Replacement
• Patient Specific Knee Replacement
• Complex Total Knee Replacement
• Robotic Unicondylar Knee Replacement
• Muscle Sparing Total Knee Replacement
• Custom-fitted Total Knee Arthroplasty
• Outpatient Total Knee Replacement
• Partial Medial Knee Replacement
• Custom Knee Replacement
• Bilateral Knee Replacement
• Computer Navigation for Total Knee Replacement
• Partial Lateral Knee Replacement
• Tricompartmental Knee Replacement
• Unicondylar knee Replacement
• Patellofemoral Knee Replacement
• What is New in Knee Replacement
• Short-Stay & Fast-Track Knee Replacement
• Rapid Recovery Knee Replacement
• Gender-Specific Knee Replacement
• Outpatient Unicondylar Knee Replacement
• Painful or Failed Total Knee Replacement
• Knee Fracture Surgery
• Knee Replacement with OrthAlign Technology
• Periprosthetic Knee Fracture Fixation
• Robotic Assisted Partial Knee Surgery