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The Utilisation of Implants in Clinical Orthopaedics

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Materials Sciences and Implant Orthopedic Surgery

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An astonishingly wide variety of inplants is used in orthopaedic surgery, varying from nails, screws, plates and screws, wires, pins to the most complex form of joint replacement. All these implants have to be fixed to the skeleton and function for a varying length of time. Some may loosen and some may break. These complications are not confined to artificial joint components but also occur with fracture fixation devices. Nevertheless, it would be fair to say that loosening and breakage of artificial joint components have been largely responsible for the steadily increasing involvement of materials scientists in this field over the past two decades. It would appear, at least from the standpoint of replacement arthroplasty of the hip, that the problem of breakage has largely been brought under control but the same cannot be said for loosening. It is therefore my intention to devote most of this paper to a discussion of some general points relating to implant fixation.

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Ling, R.S.M. (1986). The Utilisation of Implants in Clinical Orthopaedics. In: Kossowsky, R., Kossovsky, N. (eds) Materials Sciences and Implant Orthopedic Surgery. NATO ASI Series, vol 116. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4474-9_2

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