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Old 11-08-2012, 11:01 AM
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Marita,

Welcome and condolences on needing to be here.

I will ditto Harrison in cautioning against using an ADR surgeon that doesn't have a proven and stellar history in ADR. I would encourage you to research your surgeon and be very certain of his outcome history with the ProDisc before letting him put one in. A bad ADR surgery very often leads to a tragically bad outcome.

Too bad your insurance won't cover you next door in Texas. The most successful ProDisc surgeon I'm aware of is Jack Zigler at Texas Back in Plano, TX. If I were getting a ProDisc, he's the only one I'd let put it in.

I'm not a fan of choosing fusion over ADR, but as you are looking at a multilevel procedure, they tend to cause adjacent segment disease significantly less than seen after a single level fusion.

Good luck, Jeff
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