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Research Notes on Finger Joint Replacement
Finger joint replacement - also known as finger arthoplasty - is a surgical procedure to replace joint surfaces when conventional treatments fail.1 This type of surgery is performed to replace damaged joint surfaces causing pain and stiffness from arthritis.2 Bone shaping, implant insertion, and rebalancing of surrounding joint tissues are the procedures for small joint implant surgery.3
Fast Facts:
- As with all surgeries, possible complications include: problems with anesthesia, infection, nerve damage, and prosthesis failure.1
- Over 500,000 implants have replaced damaged finger, wrist, and toe joints since 1969.3
- Alfred B. Swanson developed the small joint implant in 1962.3
- The first patient using a silicone implant occurred in 1964.3
- The finger implant was approved and officially became available in 1969.3
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Research Notes References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orthogate: Artificial Joint Replacement of the Finger
- ↑ HandUniversity: A Patient's Guide to Artificial Joint Replacement of the Finger
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 About.com: Three Decades of Finger Implants
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- Contributor: Carolyn DeLucas
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Carolyn DeLucas
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Joint Replacement of Finger, Finger Joint Surgery, Joint Surgery on Finger, Finger Arthoplasty, Arthoplasty of Finger
- Last update: Mar. 16, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
