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Worldwide most artificial joints are implanted at the hip and at the knee. The third most implanted artificial joint is the shoulder joint. Especially, due to a lot of improvements in the design of shoulder prostheses made in the last decade, the rate of implanted shoulder prosthesis is growing fast.

Countires with the highest rate of implanted shoulder prosthesis are the United States, France, Switzerland and Germany.

In general one can say, the more destructed a shoulder joint is and the more pain a patient is suffering from this destruction and having - ideally intact muscles ( rotator cuff ) - the more a patients profits from the implantation of a shoulder prosthesis.