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Published: September 2, 2007
Joint-replacement surgeries are giving more Oklahomans freedom to move again
By Jim Killackey
Gaylene Turner traded an excruciating battle with arthritis in her right knee for three hours in an Oklahoma City operating room that sounded a bit like a construction site.

If the 72-year-old educator had not been sedated for her knee-replacement surgery at Bone and Joint Hospital , she'd have heard the jarring thwomp of a surgical mallet, the whir of drills and the buzz of spinning saw blades.

The smoke and...

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