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Old 07-14-2015, 03:54 PM
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Tim,

What a terrible story. Thanks for posting it.

You are the second poster we've seen here that has had a failure of an M6-C proper. The other failure sounded the same as yours; the annulus had migrated out of the implant. Per his account, Spinal Kinetics claims to have fixed that problem. I got my pair of M6-C's two years after you got yours. I am left to wonder if I received the one with the problem, or the one with that problem fixed.

Osteolysis is not uncommon with some form of heavy metal poisoning; which is why MOM (metal on metal) hip implants have fallen out of favor. Since the annulus migrated out of at least one of your implants, you probably ended up with the M6's metal end plates articulating against each other. I don't know if osteolysis resolves when the metal source is removed. Since your new doctor wants to anchor screws in those thinned bones, it sounds like he believes it should.

Wishing you the very best of luck on the 23'rd. Please update us when you're able. (looking forward to your images of the failed M6's if you can get them up)

Good luck!
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