Total hip replacement: the case for noncemented femoral fixation because of age.

Both noncemented fixation and improved cemented fixation of total hip replacements emerged to counteract the clinical and radiographic failures of early cemented procedures. A randomized clinical trial comparing a second-generation cemented with a second-generation noncemented total hip replacement demonstrated that in the medium term both implants allow excellent, disease-specific, global and functional capacity outcome measures. No …