Background: There is no consensus as to whether uncemented or cemented femoral stems should be used in younger patients. We compared the uncemented Cone stem to the cemented Bimetric stem in young patients with osteoarthritis.
Patients And Methods: We randomized 45 relatively young patients (< 65 years old, mean age 54 years) with osteoarthritis to either an uncemented Cone stem or a cemented Bimetric stem.
We operated on 13 patients (14 hips) with dysplastic hips, mean age 42 (28-58) years, with a cementless Cone stem and followed them for 5 years, using the Merle d'Aubigné clinical score, conventional radiography and repeated radiostereometry analyses. The clinical scores improved markedly at 4 months and still more throughout the study. None of the patients complained of thigh pain.
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