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Medicine is an area where new advances are being made on a regular basis that lead to better care and treatment for patients. However, this means that in some cases, patients who received older forms of treatment develop unforeseen complications, particularly in the area of Illinois defective medical devices<\/a>. Consider the case of patients receiving metal-on-metal hip replacements. Once considered the norm, these types of hip replacements are now leading to an increase in problems for patients.<\/p>\n

A recent editorial in The Journal of Arthroplasty<\/em><\/a>, a medical journal for orthopedic surgeons, urge doctors to use metal-on-metal devices only with \u201cgreat caution, if at all.\u201d This comes on the heels of reports that metal-on-metal hip replacement procedures create tiny particles of debris that can damage soft tissue and bone.<\/p>\n

Recent studies that estimated that anywhere from one to three percent of hip implant recipients could be affected by the problem, however, given the large number of people who have received metal devices the number could actually be dealing with thousands of patients in the United States who have been affected by defective medical devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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