THE TITANIUM PROSTHESIS AND ROBOT UPGRADE ALLOW STABLE AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE HIP IMPLANTS

Titanium prostheses realized with a 3D procedure, this is the latest great news of the Clinica San Francesco.

It’s about titanium acetabular components ‘customized’ (tailored on the basis of 3D CAT scan) that ensure a greater joint stability and so a lower risk of dislocation after implant. The 3D production technology allows to obtain a porous surface, projected to imitate the complex features of bone and foster a long-term biological fixation.

Another great news ‘joins’ the titanium prosthesis, that is the software upgrade of robot that helps the surgeon in hip replacement. Dr Piergiuseppe Perazzini, pioneer of robotic orthopaedic surgery, first to introduce it to Italy now is the first surgeon to use the Mako robot upgrade 4.0.

The upgraded robotic system allows an immediate “personalization” in the prosthetic operation, with significant advantages for the patient thanks to the assessment of parameters absolutely unknown or not assessable in traditional prosthetic surgery, as, for example, the “Pelvic Tilt”, the change of pelvis position, and so of prosthetic implant, moving from sitting to upright position; or the “Range of Virtual Motion”, that is the virtual simulation of femoral prosthetic component movement during the operation. An upgrade that permits to increase the stability of prosthesis which restores the useful parameters to reconstruct a perfect joint structure, reducing considerably the implant revision operations.