I KNOW 3 GOOD DOCTORS IN BALTIMORE.DR. MONT,DR.WALDMAN AND DR.MICHEAL JACOBS CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME DECIDE THE BEST
THANKS
Hi Welcome to Hip Talk.
Dr. Mont is certainly the most experienced of the three with over 1200 hip resurfacings. His video presentation is available on this page http://www.surfacehippy.info/hipresurfacinginfo.php (http://www.surfacehippy.info/hipresurfacinginfo.php) He spoke at a gather of surface hippies and wanna be hippies. It is long, but very informative.
I don't know if he is actually using the BHR. I think he normally uses the Wright C+ which is also an excellent hip device. Many surgeons will use it instead of a BHR if they need a size that the BHR does not have.
I personally want a very experienced doctor. I explain why in this article http://www.surfacehippy.info/pcselectingsurgeon.php (http://www.surfacehippy.info/pcselectingsurgeon.php) His resurfacing is almost as much an art as a learned skill. If you read Dr. Bose explanation about dislocations he explaines how a doctor continues to learn and become better and better. There have been quite a few studies that show it takes 50 - 100 hip resurfacings to become experienced. I personally like many hundreds or 2500 like my doctor De Smet has.
It is really a personal decision of how you feel about the doctors after you meet and talk with them. You will get a gut feeling about each and be able to choose. Some people are willing to have surgery with less experienced doctors. People feel if a doctor can do a THR, they can do a hip resurfacing. But a hip resurfacing is a much more technical and demanding surgery. So again, it is up to how you feel about it all.
Let us know if you have any more questions. There is a lot of information on my website that can help you, but it is sometimes difficult to find since there is so much "stuff".
Pat in Ohio
3/15/06 LBHR De Smet
Im not familiar with the other two, but Dr. Mont performed my bilat hip resurface surgery,
left-Jan.29 right-Feb.5 2007 and I am now a 6-7 handicap golfer................... No question,
Dr. Mont and his staff are excellent.