My father has a metal plate contained by his hip, will it be a problem in the x-ray apparatus at the airport?

metal plate for hip relacement surgery

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Yes, your father will be delayed. The security device (metal detector, not an x-ray machine) will detect the metal in his hip. Security staff will ask him if he have any metal, and he will explain about the metal implantation. They will then lift him aside and use the hand-held wand to check him. It will activate when it is to hand his hip. If that is the individual place it activates, and they don't find any other metal on him, they will agree to him board the plane.

This will add time to going through the collateral line, so he should plan on coming even more ahead than usual.

I've included a interconnect to Dr. Tarlow's page. It shows that plates with screw set off the metal detector just about 25% (one out of four) of the time. Full hip replacements set off the detector every time (100%).

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It might be. If the plate is titanium, it should not be an issue.

Typically, patients can seize little cards that are signed by the doctor stating what kind of reciprocated replacment is present.

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It shouldn't be because most plates are made out of a material that won't set sour those types of electrical metal detectors

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They do not put you through an X-Ray device at the airport. Even if they did, it would be obvoius that the metal hip replacement is just that, and nil more.