Medical Moment: New FDA approved implants for shoulder replacements

Father Brown was the perfect candidate for a newly FDA approved shoulder replacement made of pyro carbon not the traditional metallic and plastic.

“The weak link is that plastic. So, if you’re older and you’re not very active, that plastic’s fine. It’ll last your whole life. But when you’re young, like Father Brown, he was 59 when I did his shoulder replacement. You have years to live with a shoulder and that’s a complication,” said Dr. Armand Hatzidakis, an orthopedic surgeon at HCA HealthONE Rose.

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