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There are a lot of papers that say infection rate is over 10% at revision surgery.
I am so worried about it because i'm young..

I may need at least one rivision surgery, maybe 2 or 3 times resurgeries.

Since you are young, and hopefully healthy, your immune system should be good at attacking any bacteria. I think cleanliness at time of any surgery is the deciding factor as to what any bacteria gets introduced into the body. 10% sounds awfully high, I think any doctor, or hospital would consider that figure unacceptable, and clean up things for the better.

There is a higher chance of infection during a revision. It’s not 10 percent that’s way too high.

I have not read any reports on revision infection rates so I cannot address the numbers. That being said there are many really good surgeons doing revisions when devices stop working and fixing problems caused by other doctors. But it seems to a given that infection rates for revisions are higher. I have read a report about surgeons who do 7 or less implants a year have higher infection rates than surgeons that do 8 or more. I would think this would apply revisions. And as said over all health of the patient would be a factor. I know I plan to take care of my self and have a revision if this one fails completely. But only with a surgeon I trust and that has a record of infection rates that they will disclose.

ED2013 wrote:There is a higher chance of infection during a revision. It’s not 10 percent that’s way too high.

Infection rate durring revisions is affected by many things.

The patients Health, age, medical conditions such as diabetes as well as the doctors skill and the cleanliness of the environment.

I had a doctor quote me a rate of 15%, "Anytime"; ... a surgeon touches a patient with a knife.

I guess you know he wasn't going to be my choice.

Under favorable conditions even 10% sounds high to me.

Some doctors quote 0.8% for first time and roughly double that for revision, but I've heard 1.5% & 3.0% too.

I think the concensus is that revision rates are roughly 2× the initial implant rate, whatever you believe that to be ...