Artificial Disc Replacement Results, as with other types of surgery, vary widely depending on the skill and experience of the surgeon. We see these result differences even more clearly in the more complicated cases.

When a patient is making decisions about what surgeon to select for ADR surgery bases on artificial disc replacement results, the patient should exercise discretion at many levels.

First and foremost, the patient should get figures for the number of surgeries the surgeon has done for the number of levels the patient needs. It would be unwise to select a surgeon for a four-level procedure, who has only done one and two level surgeries. Secondly, the patient should not group all ADR surgeries into one category, because there is a vast difference in the surgical talent needed to operate on L12 and L23, than on L45 and L5S1.

Thirdly, find a surgeon who has done long-term studies, as they are more likely to know how to acquire and report artificial disc replacement results in a scientific method. Indeed, what is judged to be a good or bad surgery by the patient can change to the opposite result overtime.

Fourthly, anyone who guarantees success is less than honest. No medical procedure is 100% successful. That is simply not medicine nor biology.

Again, finding statistics that most closely matches your case is the best way to use Artificial Disc Replacement Results.