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Prosthesis, Metatarsophalangeal Joint Cartilage Replacement Implant

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Prosthesis LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#856 of 1000 · 555 reports · 2016–2026

  • BOOK 555 reports
  • RANK #856 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 535 injury-typed
  • MALF 20 malfunction
  • SPAN 2016–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 257
  • PHOTO Chair

Nearest event-volume peer: Chair, Positioning, Electric (1 report gap)

Prosthesis, Metatarsophalangeal Joint Cartilage Replacement Implant sits #856 of 1000 among tracked device types with 555 MAUDE reports spanning 2016–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Prosthesis carries 96.4% INJURY-coded reports, 66.1pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 96.4% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+66.1 pp)
  • MALF 3.6% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-61.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 56% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC accounts for 93% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 78% of location-tagged rows .

Prosthesis in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Prosthesis, Metatarsophalangeal Joint Cartilage Replacement Implant carries 555 MAUDE reports, ranked #856 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Injury 535 (96.4%)
Malfunction 20 (3.6%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

Required Intervention 381 (62.5%)
Other 142 (23.3%)
R 31 (5.1%)
Disability 16 (2.6%)
Hospitalization 13 (2.1%)
S 11 (1.8%)
O 9 (1.5%)
H 5 (0.8%)
2 (0.3%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 327
Insufficient Device Problem Information 56
Migration 40
Osseointegration Problem 32
Implant subsidence 29
Unintended Movement 14
Degraded 13
Material Fragmentation 10
Patient Device Interaction Problem 9
Loosening of Implant Not Related to Bone-Ingrowth 8
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 7
Malposition of Device 6
Material Integrity Problem 6
Break 5
Collapse 4
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 4
Fracture 4
Naturally Worn 4
Patient-Device Incompatibility 4
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 2

Yearly Trend

16
2016: 1
17
2017: 7
18
2018: 13
19
2019: 44
20
2020: 36
21
2021: 28
22
2022: 94
23
2023: 19
24
2024: 41
25
2025: 257
26
2026: 15

Reports rose to 257 in 2025, up from an average of 30 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Prosthesis, Metatarsophalangeal Joint Cartilage Replacement Implant

Top Manufacturers

WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC 26
WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC. 2

Event Locations

433 (78.0%)
I 91 (16.4%)
NO INFORMATION 31 (5.6%)

Compare WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC vs WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Prosthesis carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (555 here).

Chair, Positioning, Electric 554 Cup, Menstrual 553 Device 557 Instrument, Ent Manual Surgical 557

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Prosthesis are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Prosthesis; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.