Background: Implant removal is one of most commonly routinely done elective surgerical intervention in Bone and Joint field. However, the need for routine implant removal remains an issue of controversy and debate. This present study was conducted to investigate the indications of implant removal. Material & Methods: 180 Patients were admitted requiring implant removal in our department, got operated in the main and emergency OT. Follow up was then done for an average 6 months for resolutions of symptoms or appearance of new complications. Results: Out of 180 patients, 103 were males and 77 were females. 85 patients needed implant removal because of hardware symptoms, 20 patients nneded implant removal because of infected implant in situ. 45 patients needed implant removal on patience’s request, 15 patients have implant failure, 12 patients have exposed implants. Conclusion: From our study we concluded that symptomatic implant needs removal majority of times. We found that hardware pain, discomfort and implant prominence (mechanical symptoms) are the most common indications. patient insistence is the next most common, then followed by Infection, then exposed implant and lastly hardware failure.

Implant removal, Hardware symptoms, complications