Orthopedic disasters

Can anyone come up with some orthopaedic procedures that were done in the past that were just disasters? For instance, total meniscetomies were done for years and evidence later showed this to be a horrible operation. Kind of like how bloodletting was believed to be cure to illness a couple centuries ago.

Can you guys give me more examples in orthopaedics? I'm working on a little talk on this.

thanks.

Most kinds of silastic arthroplasty, lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, ACL repair/synthetic graft reconstruction, carbon fiber reinforced polyethylene. Personally, I'd include total ankle replacement, but that's a bit controversial.

Two Fingers

other notable failures are (not really a procedure) sterilizing polyethylene in an oxygen environment, metal backed patellas in TKA, previous generations of ceramic hips (high rate of catastrophic failures), and hip resurfacing (depending on who you talk to). I too would include total ankles, as I have taken a lot more out than I have put in.