Am I A Good Candidate For Hip Implants?

Q: Dr. Eppley, am I a good candidate for hip implants?

A:To determine if you are a good candidate for hip implants I need to have the following information:

1) current pictures of your hips

2) pictures that show your desired hip augmentation goals

3) prior surgical history that may include fat grafting and/or synthetic filler injections to the hips

This information is relevant because the most successful hip implant augmentation patients who have the lowest risk of complications have modest hip augmentation goals (not too large of an implant) and have no prior history synthetic filler injections into the hips in particular which is an absolute exclusion for the procedure.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon