As recently as 2010, it was estimated that as many as 1/3 of the 250,000 hip replacement surgeries performed each year in the U.S. involved the use of metal-on-metal hip replacements. It was believed that they would prove to be more durable than hip implants constructed of other materials. However, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) allowed metal-on-metal hip replacements to come to market under its 510(k) approval process, which doesn’t require any human testing for medical devices that are shown to be “substantially equivalent” in design to a product already approved by the agency. Unfortunately, this type of FDA clearance means that any problems with a medical device aren’t usually detected until it has been used in hundreds, if not thousands, of patients.

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