“…Results clearly show that titanium arthroprostheses have a high survival rate up to about 10 years of follow-up, but then show a steep decrease between 10 and 30 years. These devices are extremely reliable, and the failure is prevalently caused by patient-associated conditions, such as advanced age [ 372 , 373 , 374 , 375 , 376 , 377 , 378 , 379 , 380 , 381 , 382 , 383 , 384 , 385 , 386 , 387 , 388 ]. Most late failures are caused by osteoporosis and other risk factors that were not present (or not as advanced) at the time of implantation and, overall, mechanical failures and infections only account for about 15% of the total [ 389 ].…”