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Originally Posted by annapurna
. Speaking as a materials engineer who regularly works with bonded joints
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Jim,
Do you have any insights into the long term behaviour of elastomers in general? eg do they eventually tear or tend just tend to continually compress? Once I reached this point of my research I had well and truly exhausted my knowledge. Then I chose the surgeon based on my impression, not on the device. The only adr I didn't want was a charite, I just don't trust unconstrained transverse motion like that.
I have no doubt that the surgeons have absolutely no clue about how these things will go long term. Their expertise lies in surgery. When I asked my surgeon how do you think a plastic will go in 10 or 20 years time, he responded that those Wallis implant thingoes were still going well 5 years later. Which wasn't much of an endorsement imo.
Fingers crossed it never becomes an issue. I was 28 when I had it put in so longetivity is a concern. Better than being disabled by pain tho, by a long long way.
Mr Lucky, I echo the others in get multiple opinions and go for the most indicated op, be that fusion or adr.
Chris.