“…However, these opposing processes of bone gain and loss do not work at the same time, but whether they persist and to what degree are unknown. Although short-term retrieval studies report the HA coating after 2 to 4 years implantation is partly broken down through osteoclastic resorption [2,3,5,10,11,18,19,27,28], none of these studies reported whether patient demographics might influence residual HA coating or bone ongrowth. Therefore, we asked three questions: (1) Is the resorption of HA coating and bone ongrowth mainly correlated with time in vivo or with demographics, and when time in vivo is predominant, at which point can we expect all the HA to have completely resorbed?…”