Clara Maass Medical Center's Healthy Together: Spring 2022

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AFTER

BEFORE

Ben Alano on his Nutley mail route

“Knee replacement is a resurfacing of the joint with a highly engineered prosthetic implant,” explains orthopedic surgeon Frank Femino, MD. “The implant consists of a component cap on the end of the femur, a cap on the upper end of the tibia and dome on the undersurface of the patella. Think of it like putting a crown on a molar.”

THE ROUTE TO A PAIN-FREE KNEE Healthy Together

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