NewJersey.com - January 18, 2010
Baby Boomers will create a joint replacement boom

Dr. Mark A. Hartzband, a prominent Bergen County orthopedic surgeon, is a baby boomer who has many members of his own generation as patients.

“My average age is somewhere between 56 and 58, whereas when I went into practice 26 years ago, my average age was 78,” says Hartzband, 57, who estimates that 50 to 60 percent of those on whom he does knee and hip replacements — his specialty — are boomers.

“I’m a very minimally invasive guy, and those are the people who are most attracted to minimally invasive surgeons, ’cause … they want to minimize how much time they’re out of work.”

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