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Old 04-21-2014, 11:23 PM
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After my previous response, I got a little curious; I only found one other person on this site who had this done.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...d.php?p=636191

You may have done a similar search to this(?)

acdf removing hardware

From some of those discussions, some say the hardware is only removed if there's a problem, some say their surgeons did it as a matter of course, some were removed during subsequent acdf procedures (adjacent segment degeneration), and some just left the hardware in. This is anecdotal only; I didn't find/see any statistics, but I did find this short video:

Do you need to remove your hardware from a spinal fusion after the spine fuses?

Best wishes for a complete & painless recovery,

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