Longest lasting hip replacement

Longest lasting hip replacement
Who
Norman E Sharp
What
70:209 year(s):day(s)
Where
United Kingdom (Trowbridge)
When

The longest lasting hip replacement has lasted 70 years and 209 days and belongs to Norman Sharp (UK), in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK, as of 28 June 2019.


Norman was admitted to hospital in 1930 aged just 5 with septic arthritis. He spent five years in the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) having his hips fused and learning to walk again. It was a further 18 years before he was fitted with his left hip replacement on 1 December 1948. He then had his right hip replaced on 22 December 1948. Both hip replacements are still working.