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    Dr. Praharsha Mulpur

    Consultant Orthopaedic and Robotic Joint Replacement Surgeon | Sunshine Hospitals & KIMS Kondapur | MAKO Robotic Surgery Specialist

    about 1 month ago

    Most surgeries nowadays, even abdomen or orthopedic…

    Most surgeries nowadays, even abdomen or orthopedic surgeries, they have the option of doing it with a robot. Right off the bat, I would say that it improves certain things. It's not a 100% solution to every problem that happens with a knee replacement, but it solves so many of our problems. Before I get into robotics as it is in the medical specialty, what I would like to say is a lot of processes in industry, car making, chip making for the computer industry, everything used to be done by man. It has its own loopholes in terms, it's very training dependent. It can be error prone depending on how people are trained. And then there is always this issue of reliability. The reason why robotics was brought into the industrial process is because it's very reliable. It's probably faster and it's very precise. The same bolt goes into the same place every single time. It doesn't matter who's doing it, it's tightened to the same extent, or it's put in the same position. So it's about the reliability, and in terms of reproducing reliably every single time, a repetitive process, machines outscore men in most situations. In the same way, when it comes to knee replacement, when we do the surgery, we have to cut bone, we have to balance the ligaments, and we have to put it in the right position. This being done with regular instruments was very reliable, but the problem is about the reproducibility every single time. So if I have to decide to cut 1 millimeter of bone for somebody, it's very difficult to measure that 1 millimeter reliably every single time using the general instrumentation that you have. The benefit of robotics is with what we call haptic technology, and the way the saw blade sits in a particular position. If you decide to take 0.5 millimeters, or half a millime

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