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Old 11-28-2019, 11:09 PM
JackBauer JackBauer is offline
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A fair point Harrison...

I should really just be saying that there are a number of indications suggesting that six degrees of movement are superior to those with less degrees. I won't search for the pubmed articles now, but they exist.

However there are also plenty of stories of people with a elastomer based disc that had poor outcomes while you've had a great outcome with your older device.

At the same time, there's a reason the Charite is no longer being implanted.

(And I'd probably choose a ProDisc over an M6 even though the M6 offers 6 degrees... based on some of the M6 failure stories and images... Especially multi-level.)
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