Table 1.

Suggested Indications for Hip Labral Reconstruction

Non-salvageable acetabular labrum (insufficient quality and/or quantity)

Absent/insufficient longitudinal (global or segmental) labral tissue

Traumatic

Degenerative

Iatrogenic (e.g., after labrectomy, labral suture cut-through, or labral damage during joint access)

Insufficient labral width

Traumatic

Degenerative

Iatrogenic

Insufficient labral quality

Ossification

Global

Focal (one should note that these may be reparable after careful resection of ossified regions)

Traumatic

Degenerative

Age

Perhaps = or < 50 yr

Physiologic age including absence of medical comorbidities and any osteoarthrosis may extend this arbitrary age criterion

Absence of significant osteoarthrosis (Tönnis grade 0 or 1)