Porous metal is metal with special porous structures, which can offer high biocompatibility
and low Young's modulus to satisfy the need for orthopedic applications. Titanium and …

Porous tantalum scaffolds have been developed and clinically utilized as superior
implantable biomaterials for orthopedic applications owing to their exceptional corrosion …

Improving the surface of medical implants by plasma spraying of a hydroxyapatite coating
can be of critical importance to their longevity and the patient's convalescence. However …

The present study examined the bone bonding strength of diamond-structured porous
titanium-alloy (Porous-Ti-alloy) manufactured using the electron beam-melting technique in …

Background As revision implants and techniques have evolved and improved,
understanding why contemporary revision total hip arthroplasties (THAs) fail is important to …

Porous tantalum monoblock cups have been proposed to improve survivorship of
cementless primary THA. However, there are few direct comparative trials to established …

Aims Total knee arthroplasty is an established treatment for knee osteoarthritis with excellent
long-term results, but there remains controversy about the role of uncemented prostheses …

Background Cementless fixation in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was introduced to improve
the longevity of implants but has yet to be widely adopted because of reports of higher …

During the last 20 years, tantalum has known ever wider applications for the production of
endosseous implantable devices in the orthopedic and dental fields. Its excellent …

It has been advocated that total hip arthroplasty (THA) is probably the most successful
surgical intervention performed in Medicine. In the 1960s, Sir John Charnley not only …