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Originally Posted by pavulon
I can see the surface appeal and I'm not a surgeon. FWIW my answer would be dependent upon a number of things. How is your health and pain tolerance? Will your surgeon do both at once. What is his/her advice?
After surgery, rehab for one at a time can be rough. Effectively double that experience for two simultaneously while not necessarily cutting your rehab time.
One infected total knee (admittedly unusual) is awful. Two would be a disaster.
YMMV and good luck!
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Recovery will be MUCH easier if you do them one at a time.
If you get bilateral TKR and one gets infected, the other will too.
You don't even want to know what the treatment is for an infected joint replacement.
Make them measure you after a joint replacement, no looking at the radiographs is not good enough. Limb length discrepancy is fairly common after joint replacement.