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There is no future. No one will buy them because they owe too much money to their investors, and their patents are worthless because their technology isn't so much better than the standard joint replacement.
 


Keep wishing pal, This company is busting at the seams with growth! Theyve had to quadroople their production space in the last 12 months! A custom tk that ships in a box, all sterile, one small tray of instruments, eliminating all inventory needs in a hospital for about the same price as an ots knee along with added CT revenue? 30% more bone conserving replicating all 3 J Curves? Yeah buddy sure its not much better than a regular knee. Its got its drawbacks with big deformities, but pretty soon all that will be addressed! This is the wave of the Future! And there's a lot if territories in a PANIC!
 


Sure, and that's why you apparently fired your VP of Sales and replaced him with a former two-bit distributor (that's impressive!), cut the salesman's base from $80k to $60K and issued more stock for capital! Yeah, very impressive, LOL.
 


It's a mess. Falling way short of the number. Big problems with the iTotal. Sales rep morale is horrible. Field sales management is a joke. Senior sales management is a bigger joke. Don't get started talking about marketing.
 


Even when they do something right, it's followed up by a dumb move. They fire VP of Sales Phelps (good move) then bring in some other schlub with no experience (bad move).
 


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It's a mess. Falling way short of the number. Big problems with the iTotal. Sales rep morale is horrible. Field sales management is a joke. Senior sales management is a bigger joke. Don't get started talking about marketing.
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Possible candidate for conformis total knee. What are the potential problems with the total knee replacement ie: iknee any help would be appreciated!
 


Anonymous said:
Possible candidate for conformis total knee. What are the potential problems with the total knee replacement ie: iknee any help would be appreciated!
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Even though I believe it to be a cool concept I know that nothing ruins a perfectly good case like long term followup, and anything less than 5 years is meaningless. So how long is there data trail on the polyethylene? How is that articulation geometry wearing long-term? Is matching the patients J-curve a good idea that time has borne out?

Like Mako, it's not a nifty new procedure that's going in your knee for the next 15 years, it's an implant. Be very cynical, as Hylamer and carbon poly were state of the art at the time they were released...I would ask for the knee that the registries show as the lowest risk of revision historically, and then find a surgeon who puts in a lot of them, well (OR nurses know this data better than anyone).
 


Anonymous said:
Keep wishing pal, This company is busting at the seams with growth! Theyve had to quadroople their production space in the last 12 months! A custom tk that ships in a box, all sterile, one small tray of instruments, eliminating all inventory needs in a hospital for about the same price as an ots knee along with added CT revenue? 30% more bone conserving replicating all 3 J Curves? Yeah buddy sure its not much better than a regular knee. Its got its drawbacks with big deformities, but pretty soon all that will be addressed! This is the wave of the Future! And there's a lot if territories in a PANIC!
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Only 20% of patients are happy with their "off the shelf" implant at 1 year out....I would love to see the cited source of that data
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Results from the multi-center, prospective study were presented at the 2016 SICOT International Orthopedic “Specialized Knee Surgery” Conference in Wurzburg, Germany

look it up
 




I think you need to read a little more carefully. It says 20% were not satisfied with off the shelf. Click on the link you posted, or original poster (his says 80 satisfaction).
 



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