Advantages
The CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System relieves hip pain and improves hip function by replacing the parts of your hip that have been severely damaged by degenerative joint diseases. These diseases include: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic arthritis, dysplasia, and avascular necrosis.
The CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System is intended for patients who, due to their relatively younger age or increased activity level, may not be suitable for traditional total hip replacement due to an increased possibility of requiring future hip joint revision.
The CONSERVE® PLUS Total Hip Implant is an effective option to total hip replacement. The design goals include:
- Designed to preserve bone
- Designed to more accurately reproduce a patient's anatomy
- Designed to contain no plastic parts
- Designed to allow patients to maintain an active lifestyle
- Designed to more easily allow revision (if necessary) since it does not violate the femoral canal
Only you and your orthopaedic surgeon can make the decision about how to deal with your hip pain. Total hip resurfacing may improve your quality of life and allow you to return to your daily tasks and low-impact activities with greater comfort.
If your surgeon has decided that you will benefit from hip replacement surgery, the benefits may include the relief of pain and return of function of the hip. When thinking about the benefits of the CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System, you should compare the possible risks and benefits of the CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System to the risks and benefits of other types of artificial hip replacement devices.
Hip resurfacing versus a total hip replacement: The CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System is a hip resurfacing device. With a hip resurfacing device, the surgeon covers your hip socket with a metal cup, and covers your femoral head with a metal cap. With a total hip replacement device, the surgeon covers your hip socket with a cup and replaces your femoral head with a metal ball attached to a long metal stem. The metal stem is inserted into your thighbone.
Metal-on-metal versus metal-on-plastic or ceramic-on-ceramic: With metal-on-metal systems, the cap (ball) and the socket components are made from highly polished metal. The CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System is a metal-on-metal system. Other hip systems can have a metal ball with a plastic lined socket (metal-on-plastic) or a ceramic ball with a ceramic lined socket (ceramic-on-ceramic).
Each of the device types discussed above can significantly improve hip pain and function. However, specific potential benefits of the CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System include:
- The CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System's metal cup will not chip or crack as ceramic components can.
- The CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System does not cause thighbone (femoral shaft) fractures as total hip replacement systems can.
- The CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System may make future revision surgery easier, should that be required, because hip resurfacing surgery leaves your femoral head in place and there is no large metal stem placed in the thighbone. In contrast, revision surgery of a total hip replacement where your femoral head has been removed and a large stem is in place can be a more difficult operation.
- Dislocation of the ball head from the socket is less common with the CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System than with total hip replacement devices. In the clinical study 1.3% of 292 patients treated with the CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System experienced hip dislocation while the study ceramic-on- ceramic and metal-on-metal total hip replacement devices had a dislocation rate of 1.5% and 3.1%, respectively. There have been no revisions or removals related to dislocation of the CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System.
Search our Physician Locator database to find a hip surgeon in your area using this treatment option. He/she will be better able to advise you of the most appropriate treatment for you.
For additional information on the CONSERVE® PLUS Total Resurfacing Hip System, please review the patient information brochure.
