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I have resurfaced women in their 60s and men The ED Reverser Review in their 70s. Age is not the salient criteria - but a surrogate for bone density and life expectancy on a population basis. Each patient has to be evaluated individually to assess the benefit-to-risk ratio of resurfacing v. THR for them. - Thomas P. Schmalzried, M.D.The really experienced surgeons all admitted that they are STILL learning today. Dr. Amstutz, Dr. De Smet, Dr. OHara, all have done well over 1000 hip resurfacings and they all agree that the learning curve continues. Amstutz made the comment that NO two femoral heads are the same.This technology is still in its infant stages and they are still perfecting the devices, the instrumentation, the placement of the cups, the angles of the components, the soft tissue preservation methods, the incision sizes, the anesthesia, the rehab protocols. Some mentioned that the newer doctors do have the advantage of learning from doctors that have gone before them to avoid the same mistakes. I agree to some point, but even though they KNOW what causes notching of the femoral neck, why is it that some newer doctors still notch? It is inevitable that the first few times they do something, even though they know to avoid certain things, until they get the hang of it, they WILL make mistakes. Even http://explorereading.net/the-ed-reverser-book-review/ some of the greats today will still make mistakes now and then, after all, they are only human. But the odds are, the more experience a doctor has, the less mistakes he will make. Again, Dr. Su in his video interview near the end explains the learning curve in stages really well. Go to Dr. Sus video interview to where the clock says around 3 minutes near the end on the referenced website under Doctors - Video Interviews.