Here are three key points:
1. The procedure, known as Subchondroplasty, injects bone substitute material into the joint, filling voids and lesions.
2. Over time, a patient’s body replaces the bone substitute with his or her own bone. Physicians note the procedure is less invasive than a hip replacement and patients’ recovery time is shorter.
3. Wexter Medical Center’s Kelton Vasileff, MD, is one of the orthopedic surgeons performing the alternate procedure. He said in a statement, “We’re able to sue a bone-hardening procedure that’s traditionally been used in knee surgery to help repair a patient’s own hip joint.”
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