What type of implants are you referring to? I am assuming it for you hip. I do know many success stories of friends with hip replacement. Yet I lost a dear friend a few years ago who originally had hip replacement surgery at a Saint Louis MO hospital by a famous orthopedic surgeon. She wouldn't heal because she picked up a drug resistant bacteria in her hip. Trying desperately to cure the infection she took trips to Mayo in MN to see specialists. Her last trip there was the last time I saw her, as she lost her battle with this bacteria. It wasn't the implant per say, it was what she picked up during surgery.