Arthroplasty Research Paper

Arthroplasty is the surgical reconstruction of the articular surface of a joint. Anthony White of London is considered to have carried out the first successful arthroplasty of the hip in 1821, when he corrected a traumatic deformity of the hip in a nine-year-old patient by excising the head, neck and trochanters of the femur, resulting in the eventual formation of a fibrous pseudoarthrosis at the hip, permitting pain relief and “perfect” restoration of function in the previously bedridden patient (4).
Likely influenced by the pioneering work of American J. M. Carnochan beginning in 1840, Auguste Verneuil and later Leopold Ollier of Paris, France began using foreign materials including muscle, fat, and connective tissues between contacting surfaces in the hip joint (so called “interpositional arthroplasty”) to relieve pain and prevent permanent deformity for debilitating hip pathology beginning in 1860 (5).
While experimentation with different interpositional arthroplasty materials continued for many years, it was German surgeon Themistocles (Thomas) Gluck who in 1891 attempted the first hip arthroplasty by physically replacing bone with a foreign material