Talk:Hip resurfacing

message: Also the first reference is a mix of two...not helpful. I support removal of the specified sportspeople, but there is other evidence of high levels of activity possible with this hip.
This article seems to contain biased content, or is slanted as an advertisement for the procedure described thereon 68.98.69.91 00:05, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am deeply concerned that this is a very poor article indeed. It needs in-depth revision by people who know something about the subject. Cooke (talk) 20:54, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
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message: I am removing the promotional content.
--Jill (talk) 03:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotional Content 

message: It might be a lot more useful for the legibility and overall development of the article to actually explicitly say what a hip resurfacing is, rather than a smattering of comparisons to a total hip replacement? Nonagonal Spider (talk) 19:26, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explicit Description 

message: Speaking as a bioengineering researcher from the academic side, this article is pretty poor. The technical description is very limited (it only begins with the BHR as if that was the first ever attempt at hip resurfacing, which is utterly false) - it makes no allowance for other material combinations besides metal-on-metal, gives a handful of anecdotal 'famous sportspeople' as evidence of performance, which is flatly ridiculous when large amounts of data from national joint registers and in the literature are freely available, and totally fails to provide clinical references quantifying the longevity and failure rates of these devices (absolutely important, in light of the current litigation fallout).  
There is some good content buried in there (the importance of patient selection & surgical skill), but it's not even referenced. anyone reading this article wouldn't really end up more informed as a result. 
In short, this badly needs a complete re-write. And given the current interest in the tech following the ASR debacle, the sooner, the better.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.178.43 (talk) 11:26, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very poor article 

message: I removed the paragraph on the Lancet study. The study was on "Failure rates of stemmed metal-on-metal hip replacements", which refers to total hip replacement, not hip resurfacing. The other references in the paragraph also talk about THR, not resurfacing. Resurfacing doesn't use a stemmed component.
If you want to write about disadvantages, make sure you're talking specifically about hip resurfacing. Braneof (talk) 16:17, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disadvantages need work 

message: I thought this article needed a lot more context and, frankly, some dilution around the obvious promotion of the BHR existing within it. I've added a lot of information sourced from the article here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109156), which I cite in the body, in addition to a few statistics from the AOANJRR to give a feel for the current state of things.
It's not perfect, and relies heavily on the summary linked.
Soogwoog (talk) 22:58, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion of "Devices" to "History and Devices" 

message: There have been recommendations on the talk page to remove the list of sportspeople for over a decade. It's a magnet for unsourced assertions, subtle promotional materials, and reads as an advertisement for the procedure rather than actually adding any real understanding. I'm editing to remove that section entirely, and am planning to follow up with improvements on the rest of the article.
I am also going to remove the recall section. Although this recall was indeed a major event for the industry, listing it in this way implies that DePuy is somehow the only company involved in recall activities. Instead, the mention in the "History and Devices" section is sufficient to include this event in the historical context.
--Soogwoog (talk) 08:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Athletes & Recalls