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I'm gonna call bullshit on this one.

There's 4 components to most standard knee replacements: the large front facing piece that covers the femoral condyles, the tibial component, and then two plastic spacers between the femorotibial and patellofemoral interfaces.

Each of those components requires shaving off the bone at certain angles and then using trials to ensure fit and stability before cementing the actual implants in place.

My guess is that your boy was talking about the navigation or computer assisted devices that many orthos use now to line up their cuts and ensure proper cutting angles. That being said, each company is a little different and uses their own special jig or some proprietary set up that requires some special tool or something that until you've seen it or used it, would be impossible to figure out.

So maybe putting the array upside down, or attaching the jig upside down or something? Sure. But the implant? No.


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Here's a good video of a computer assisted knee replacement:

Well when I asked him why he quit the job to basically hustle for himself he said the being on call all the time really sucked. I did not go into the ins and outs of knee replacement surgery and this was easily 15+ years ago. I've also had pretty major brain surgery since so you may be totally right. I did electrical work and he sold screws and such. Shit now I gotta come up with a picture.........
 

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" It would be neat if it didn't smell like cigarettes and cigars."

Sorry, did you mean the Hotel or Florida in general
 

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Kajiimagi

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That's no rendering, it's the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood Florida. It would be neat if it didn't smell like cigarettes and cigars.

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Yeah I realized that after the fact. I thought something that ....extra would be an only in Vegas thing.
Speaking of cigarettes & cigars. I went to lunch at a casino restaurant today. First time in over a year I'd been in that place and the wall of smoke stink hits you at the door. Wow

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