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BIRMINGHAM HIP™

Resurfacing System

Total Hip Replacement

The Early Years

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In the 1930's Phillip Wiles from the Middlesex Hospital, London, UK designed & inserted the first total hip replacements.

Prior to this date prosthetic replacement surgery was of the hemi-arthroplasty type with only one arthritic surface being replaced and the results were unsatisfactory. The record of Wiles' cases were lost during the war but one patient is reported to still have their implant in situ 35 years later¹.

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