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dimensional image of a patient’s knee. Then, the surgeon calculates a customized surgical plan that precisely pinpoints where arthritic knee surfaces need to be removed and where an implant should be placed. An added benefit is that healthy bone, ligaments, and tendons are spared. This technology allows the surgeons to precisely execute the pre-operative plan.

Florida Hospital Waterman is the only hospital in Lake, Marion, Sumter, Citrus, and Putnam counties to offer MAKOplasty robotic partial knee resurfacing. The procedure typically lasts between forty-five minutes to one hour.

Never fear. The future of knee surgery has already arrived at Florida Hospital Waterman.

When the hospital’s patients undergo partial or total knee replacement, some receive the BioPro® Total Knee Original (TKO) implant. In traditional knee replacements, a patient’s anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) are removed and their function is only partially restored. In addition, there is excessive bone loss.

Conversely, the BioPro® implant spares a patient’s ACL and PCL, as well as healthy bone. Moreover, the product’s revolutionary thin design ebilitating knee pain can adversely affect your overall quality of life and keep you from performing everyday activities such as bathing, cooking meals, and completing household chores.proportionately matches the natural anatomy of the knee, allowing the knee to be restored to a more natural acting and responsive state. As a result, patients enjoy longer-lasting relief from debilitating knee pain. practice profile procedures