In August, Dr. Joseph A. Gil became the first surgeon in Rhode Island to perform a thumb joint replacement using a TOUCH CMC 1 ball-and-socket prosthesis. Gil used the device in a procedure called a carpometacarpal total joint arthroplasty at University Orthopedics Inc. in Providence. TOUCH CMC 1 had previously only been available in Europe until the implant, developed by
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