When De Smet did my surgery in February I was part of a sequence of twelve surgeries he did over a two day period. I got to know a few of the other medical tourists during the rehab and recently my wife sent out some e-mails at the five month mark to see how things were going. Four people wrote back (three had resurfacings and the other had a ceramic THR because of damage to the hip from a car accident). It seems everyone is happy with their results and recovering well, so I thought I'd give kudos to the good Doctor by posting here. Meanwhile, I'll be sending x-rays to De Smet in a couple of weeks for a six-month check up, but I don't suppose there should be any problem because it seems my recovery from revision surgery is going quite well.
Cheers
Tim Bratten
Hi Tim
Thanks for the note. I kept in touch with a handful of De Smet hippies that were with me in 2006. We emailed on and off for a year or so. As far as I know, none had any problems and were back to normal lives with their hip resurfacings.
Thanks for taking time to post your information and story. It is important to know a hr can be revisied to a THR and you can still be very active without restrictions when done by a great surgeon with the proper device. It was too bad you did not start with De Smet in the begining. I will be interested to see which way you go with your next hip.
Good Luck.
Pat
Sounds like your doing well tim! Also good to hear that De Smets other patients are also doing well. Just goes to show what a great surgeon can do!