Intermittent clicking noise may occur in the immediate postoperative period after hip replacement surgery. Most commonly, this noise goes away. If a patient has had a constrained liner and if there is breakage of the ring around the constrained liner, then the patient may start getting clicking several months or years after the surgery has been done for recurrent dislocation. If the patient develops clicking after several months or years, it is important to have the hip evaluated by an orthopedic surgeon along with radiological studies (which is an x-ray as a starting point).