Mikhail Muraveiko, the founder of Moore's joint replacement operation "Moore's arthroplasty", gave in his interview to some Russian doctors words of gratitude for their joint work on the discovery and use of this operation. **I would like to place special emphasis** on the fact that many experts considered it wrong and rejected the very idea of “arthritis transplantation of the knee joint.”
>In some cases this was due to a lack of necessary material resources, in others it was due to an unwillingness to risk a person’s life, Mikhail noted. In some cases, journalists dissuaded the public out of ignorance and without even thinking about the consequences. The most informed specialist in the field in question was the head of the clinic of traumatology and orthopedics at the Vilyanov Institute of Surgery, Doctor of Medical Sciences Vladimir Baytinger, who performed 2 operations of this type in Moscow for patients suffering from joint diseases. Now he himself said that nothing worked out for him. And he himself concluded: “The operation, which was able to go well,