Follow-up

Check your preoperative planning and your cementing technique with your post-operative radiographs.

Take both a frontal and a true lateral exposure in order to determine if there is proper alignment and a uniform cement mantle surrounding both the cup and the stem.

For high-risk patients (young and active, inferior bone quality), regular clinical and radiographic follow-up every second year is recommended.

For elderly and less active patients, a one year follow-up is usually sufficient. If nothing inappropriate is apparent, these patients can be left without further check.

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