[Single use custom made instrumentation, the future of total knee arthroplasty?]

It is expected that the number of total knee arthroplasties should be multiplied by 7 in twenty years. Until now, this procedure required a large number of surgical trays. Three-dimensional preoperative planning, persona-lized cutting guides, and disposable instrumentation kits can now help to optimize this procedure by providing a unique single-use surgical kit per patient. This type of instrumentation leads to improvements in precision, operative time, turnover time, sterilization and maintenance costs, and could help reduce infectious risks. This technology is a step towards personalized orthopedic surgery, and opens new perspectives on a future with implants entirely customized for each patient.