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Total Ankle Replacement: Back to the Future?

Immediate past President, EFAS National Society, Denmark

*Corresponding Author:

Hakon Kofoed
Coast hospital Skodsborg, Denmark
E-mail: hakon.kofoed@gmail.com

Received Date: December 13, 2012; Accepted Date: December 26, 2012; Published Date: January 02, 2013

Citation: Kofoed H (2013) Total Ankle Replacement: Back to the Future? Clin Res Foot Ankle 1:e102. doi: 10.4172/2329-910X.1000e102

Copyright: © 2013 Kofoed H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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When total ankle replacement began in 1970 [1] the trend was soon followed by lots of others. All designs were two-component replacements with Fixed Bearings (FB) intended for fixation with bone cement. Already at 5-year follow-ups most designs were given up because of major problems with loosening. A few continued to solve the problems, and from the beginning of the 1980s the three component designs with Mobile Bearing (MB) were introduced [2,3]. With results superior to the former two-piece devices, a new era was started, and nearly all new designs from the late 1990s were three component devices, and intended for non-cemented use. The good survival rates have been confirmed also with these devices. They have all lend features from the two original designs [2-4], and much more attention has been paid to restoring a