Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgery is a robotic arm assisted partial knee resurfacing procedure designed to relieve the pain caused by joint degeneration due to osteoarthritis.
Mako Total Hip is a total hip replacement surgery that is supported by robotic-arm assisted technology, designed for patients who suffer from non-inflammatory or inflammatory degenerative joint disease.
Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Total Knee Replacement is a treatment option for adults living with mid to late-stage osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee.
If you need a hip or knee replacement, you have plenty of company. Surgeons replace nearly half a million hips and 800 thousand knees every year. “A joint replacement is simply a resurfacing of the boney ends of a joint with metal and plastic,” said McLaren Flint orthopedic surgeon Dr. Seann Willson . “The bone ends are contoured to accept the implants, which are then glued or pressed into the bone.” During a traditional knee replacement or arthroplasty, surgeons use a jig placed in a hole drilled down ...