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Replacement body parts like hips have serial numbers, and my Doc gave me a card to carry in my wallet. It list the manufacturer and serial number of the implant. The only real purpose for the card is if I am in a bad car wreak and end up in some hospital, they will have some information as to just what is in me.
Jeff, my mother had 4 hip replacements. Yes, she was a normal human with just two hips, but she had her first one done back in the very early 1980s, and the other side done a couple of years later. She was very active as a volunteer at the local zoo, and too much walking just wore the first ones out. The second set were never right, and she was using a walker for the last 10 years of her life. Hip replacements are much more durable now than back then.
I am really happy the hip I got has held up great. I hope to get another 25 or 30 years of usage out of it! That will put me in the triple digits of age, so it is an optimistic hope.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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