March of the year 2010 found the New York Times reporting that DePuy Orthopedics had warned doctors that its ASR hip replacement cup, also referred to as a, "socket," was failing in people within a few years after hip replacement surgery when the implants should have been expected to last fifteen years or more. The failures may lead to expensive and highly painful replacement operations called, "revision operations." The Food and Drug Administration approved DePuy's ASR implant cup and metal ball for use in America in the year 2005. There are approximately 140,000 people in America who have received a DePuy metal on metal hip implant.
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