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If you are contemplating having
surgery by one of our physicians, we request
that our
office have
suitable x-rays prior to your surgery. In Orthopaedic surgery,
pre-operative
x-rays play an important role in the planning of your
surgery, and
help assess the need
for additional bone graft or other
materials. Many of you
will have x-rays done at other
offices or
facilities. If they are acceptable and are
of good diagnostic
quality, we would
like to keep them rather than send them
back to
the facility where they were taken. If we
are unable to keep them,
or if they
are of inadequate quality, we would like to have them
done in our office. If you
have not had x-rays prior to your
appointment, you will be
asked to have x-rays
taken upon arrival at
our office. Follow-up x-rays should be kept in
our office;
they are
a vital part of your ongoing medical record.
We hope that you understand these requests. They
are designed to help
facilitate our
service to you.
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