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Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Nov 24, 2025 | Replies (29)
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In my opinion he is. He trains other surgeons (a fellowship program) and there are others who now do the procedure. The advantage to others is that most of them will take insurance; the disadvantage is that they haven't done thousands of them like Dr. Chow has.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34536596/
No matter how good a surgeon is, there is still some matter of luck and uncertainty. I have a friend in Scottsdale who had a superpath from another surgeon who does a lot of them: Judd Cummings (who does take insurance). He had previously had a traditional hip replacement on the other side. He is having a lot of problems on the traditional side but not on the Cummings side.
A skilled and experienced surgeon doing anterior is ahead of the game compared to the traditional posterior. But I do believe that Superpath is an improvement on that.
There may be Superpath surgeons in Dallas or Fort Worth. i don't know. If there are, you would want to find out how many they have done.
Bottom line: If you want the absolute best, go to Dr. Chow. If you are satisfied with close to that, there are other surgeons. I was chatting with Dr. Chow a while back and although he is the primary inventor of Superpath, and holds a number of patents, he believes that extensive experience doing a particular procedure is the most important criteria.