1. Artificial lenses: 2.6 million procedures.
2. Ear tubes: 715,000 procedures.
3. Coronary stents: 560,000 procedures.
4. Artificial knees: 543,000 procedures.
5. Metal screws, pins, plates and rods for traumatic fracture repair: 453,000 procedures.
6. Intra-uterine devices: 425,000 procedures.
7. Spine screws, rods and artificial discs for spinal fusion: 413,000 procedures.
8. Breast implants: 366,000 procedures.
9. Heart Pacemakers: 235,567 procedures.
10. Artificial Hips: 230,000 procedures.
11. Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: 133,262: procedures.
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