@cathymw

I wanted a minimally invasive approach and got one (mini midvastus). But in my mind the most important criteria is extensive successful experience. I want my surgeon to have done the procedure the way I was going to have it at least a hundred times, preferably hundreds or even thousands of times.

I had this same discussion with my surgeon who is the primary inventor of the Superpath approach to hip replacement. Yet his three most important criteria are: extensive experience, great hands, great mind.

So...yes...look for a surgeon who does subvastus or mini midvastus procedures but only if she has done at least a hundred of them. Someone has to be the guinea pig...you don't want it to be you. This is very complex surgery and experience is everything.