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Technology and handling of ceramic implants
Publikationstyp
Book Part
Date Issued
2013-01-01
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Institut
TORE-URI
Start Page
3
End Page
16
Citation
Total hip arthroplasty : tribological considerations and clinical consequences / Karl Knahr, ed.. - Heidelberg : Springer, 2013. - Seite 3-16
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Scopus ID
Publisher
Springer
© 2013 EFORT. All rights are reserved. Ceramic bearing articulations were introduced in the 1970s by Boutin and Mittelmeier with the goal of minimizing wear particles and preventing aseptic osteolysis - to fight the particle disease caused by polyethylene (PE) wear (Kobayashi et al. 1997), especially in the younger and more active patient (Mittelmeier 1984). Since their introduction, ceramic materials have been greatly improved by reducing grain size and increasing density and by the successive introduction of composite ceramics (Fig. 1.1). With these improvements, the resistance of the materials to crack growth and uncontrolled phase transition was greatly improved (Stewart et al. 2003; Oberbach et al. 2007; Affatato et al. 2012), which is reflected by the material properties (Table 1.1). Controlled phase transition is now even used to limit crack growth (Fig. 1.2).
DDC Class
570: Biowissenschaften, Biologie
610: Medizin