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The papers say the infection rate of revision surgery is 5-10%.
It seems too high... virgin surgery's infetion rate is only 1%(or less than)
Why is it dramatically high when revision surgery is done?

Does that statistics apply to a skilled doctor who do more than 100 cases a year?
I really hope that experienced doctors do not have such high infection rate of revision..

Personally, without scientific proof for that, would argue so.

Top docs for a virgin implant have around 1-2 % infection rate, where as industrial average is 3-5 %. Meaning it is almost 3 times higher. Thus one could say with higher skilled surgeon the average risk for a revision could be anywhere between 2 to 5%.

On the other hand are revisions usually done by more skilled surgeons which might already include that the majority of the performing surgeons is more experience/crafted.