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@kildaren96

We each must do what we think is best for us. I opted for a surgeon who is the primary inventor of the superpath method which is supposed to be (and I believe is) a successor to and improvement to the anterior approach. But in chatting with him one day, he thinks the most important criteria is extensive experience.

If it came down to a decision between a skilled and experienced surgeon doing posterior or a surgeon doing Superpath who has only done ten of them, I would opt for the posterior method and so would my incredibly skilled surgeon. But there is little reason if one's insurance allows it not to be greedy and get a surgeon who has the experience and is using the newer methods.

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@steveinarizona I agree with the experience. “ Joshua Carothers, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon, specializing in total joint hip and knee surgery. He joins CHRISTUS St. Vincent with more than 14 years of experience and has completed more 10,000 total joint surgeries.”

Also, he had a great video posted explaining in detail what a hip or knee replacement entailed. What sealed the deal was that I couldn’t find one bad thing about him in my online searching. He was great as was my experience from start to finish.