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How is it that I fit the first paragraph to a tee, and yet one knee is 99% normal and the other a disaster. With the second paragraph, again, I'm way ahead of you. Having had three surgeries and 7 years of reading and research I remain with the conclusion that there is always a risk.

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heyjoe415 | @heyjoe415 | Oct 19 6:09am

Yes and please let me clarify. There is aways risk with any surgery. Infection occurs in about 1% of TKRs, and that sounds low, but it's one in 100 on average. Surgeons do more than one thousand themselves each year, so that risk is real.

So is the risk of a surgeon, even a good one, making a mistake. There is also risk in getting a bad surgeon, so do your homework.

And finally, one TKR on the same patient can be fine while the other knee can present problems.

I do believe that for the majority of people who follow some common sense advice, the risks from TKR are very low, not a gamble at all and that most outcomes will be far preferable to never having the surgery.

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