On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:12:10 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:59:18 -0300, wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 04:58:40 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:10:27 -0300, wrote:
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>>>>>I agree. A friend had a hip replacement light years ago, when they
>>>>>first started doing them, it was only later as a result of seeing
>>>>>notice of a class action against porcelain replacement hips that she
>>>>>knew anything could be amiss. When she checked with her doctor, he
>>>>>checked, found she did indeed have a porcelain one and she had another
>>>>>replacement before perhaps she fell and shattered the thing.
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>>>>Egads, using porcelain seems like a great material to use for a hip
>>>>replacement <rolls eyes>.
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>>>It's actually very durable but yes, not really what one wants for a
>>>hip.
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>> Durable, but there's not much 'give' between it not breaking and
>> breaking.
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>Of memory serves my knee replacements are made of titanium.

Correct, so is mine but they weren't using it back then. I did quite
a long study after mine was done while they tried to evaluate whether
artificial joints should be different for men and women. Don't know
what the conclusion was, the most boring study I have ever done