Attune Tibia issue

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How much longer until we get a FDA warning letter about the high incidence of CoCr tibial plates loosening? They will probably wait til it turns out to be a recall and we owe patients millions of dollars.
 








anonymous said:
How much longer until we get a FDA warning letter about the high incidence of CoCr tibial plates loosening? They will probably wait til it turns out to be a recall and we owe patients millions of dollars.
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I have to assume this is a competitor since they put CoCr tibial plate. Any DePuy rep would know sigma trays were CoCr also, so this isn't something new they were using. Do you have anything to back up this claim? Keep telling yourself that Titanium trays are the only way to go.
 








Again, can only believe half of what you read on the site, but there is a doc in my territory(I'm a Zimmer rep) who has revised 4 or 5 loose Attune tibias. I can honestly say I don't remember him revising one Sigma tibia for loosening. The Attune tibias are coming out with little effort and look like they just came out of the package. They are coming out almost as easy as the couple of Persona TM tibias that he put in. Haha
 




anonymous said:
Again, can only believe half of what you read on the site, but there is a doc in my territory(I'm a Zimmer rep) who has revised 4 or 5 loose Attune tibias. I can honestly say I don't remember him revising one Sigma tibia for loosening. The Attune tibias are coming out with little effort and look like they just came out of the package. They are coming out almost as easy as the couple of Persona TM tibias that he put in. Haha
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Let's say for a minute that this is true...what cement is he using?
 




anonymous said:
Again, can only believe half of what you read on the site
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I agree, and the proof is in this post

there is a doc in my territory(I'm a Zimmer rep)
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Maybe, I doubt it

who has revised 4 or 5 loose Attune tibias.
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Highly doubtful

I can honestly say I don't remember him revising one Sigma tibia for loosening.
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Likely true

The Attune tibias are coming out with little effort and look like they just came out of the package. They are coming out almost as easy as the couple of Persona TM tibias that he put in. Haha
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Total BS
 








The tray is almost identical to the sigma mbt tray. We had no issues with that. I have a hard time seeing how we would have issues with this. I heard Charlotte surgeons are using Attune again. I would really have to question the cement technique if there were truly any loose trays
 


anonymous said:
The tray is almost identical to the sigma mbt tray. We had no issues with that. I have a hard time seeing how we would have issues with this. I heard Charlotte surgeons are using Attune again. I would really have to question the cement technique if there were truly any loose trays
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The tray is thicker and has a different manufacturing process so the back side has a different roughness and is not as rough as the sigma. Thick tray is stiffer and CoCr.. we will have a recall just watch.
 







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