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difficult to revise if it fails. 7 Initially, silicone implants were popular among surgeons and were utilized in patients who were too young and too active for joint replacement surgery. 8 The initial reports on silastic implants showed higher
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arthroplasty began historically with silastic implants and progressed to all-metal implants and, more recently, synthetic cartilage implants. Both first and second generation silastic implants have been found to be associated with high rates of osteolysis with
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s by means of ulna head replacement with silastic implants. We define these implants as Type 1 implants, aimed at creating an interposition between the bone ends. Since the failed silicone arthroplasty was abandoned, until recently few reports could
