WTW15,
Is your insurance limiting you to who you may choose as your hip resurfacing surgeon? Do limited means prevent you choosing a surgeon a relatively short plane flight away? If 'yes', then I implore you to heed my advice and benefit from my extensive years of experience with some of the world's leading orthopedic surgeons of various sub specialties, and
use the most experienced in network resurfacing OA specialist surgeon in your area. In more cases than you'd think, you can also get your insurance to do a review of your case, and then rule to reimburse or fully cover the surgeon of your choice who might not be on your plan.
If you answered no, and you are fortunate enough to have the means, then you owe it to yourself to use the best possible hip resurfacing specialist; that means a surgeon who has performed the most resurfacings with successful long term verifiable patient outcomes, a surgeon who has a record of low complications, a surgeon who has many referrals from their large pool of satisfied patients that you may speak with, and a surgeon who has literally years of successful experience with hip resurfacings.
I'm going to chime in with other posters here and stress how absolutely critical it is that you
must have your resurfacing done by a surgeon who's ideally done over 1000 procedures, and at the bare
the minimum should have performed 500 + resurfacings. The word on the ' net is the surgeon you like, Dr. Cynthia Kelly, has not even done 200! Personally, I wouldn't get in a plane with a new pilot that has far less flight hours than Captain Sullenberger. This surgery is much, much more technically difficult than most all kinds of hip surgeries and requires an entire level of expertise above the average or relatively inexperienced THR surgeon. It's like if you want your Vegas odds to beat the house odds,
you must use a resurfacing specialist who's practice is almost exclusively made up of hip resurfacings vs. a knee replacement, THR, arthroscopy, "Jack or Jill" surgeon of all things orthopedic.
You can always cancel, WTW15, or at the very least increase your successful outcome by getting a 2nd opinion/appointment with experienced surgeons with tons of resurfacings under their belts:
Joshua Hickman, MD - BHR Trained Calgary Canada 2006
400 Hip Resurfacings to date***
Mountain Orthopaedics
1551 Renaissance Towne Drive
Bountiful Utah 84010
801-295-7200
clinic website: mountainortho.com
James B. Rector, MD - BHR Trained Calgary June 2006
510 Hip Resurfacings to date ***
Boulder Orthopedics
303-449-2730
933 Alpine Avenue
Boulder, CO 80304
http://www.surfacehippy.info/listofdoctors.php#Colorado - This is the page where orthopedic surgeons' latest # of Hip Resurfacings and their training is listed.
My Very Best Wishes For Your Successful Outcome,
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