Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
Volume 70A, Issue 4, Pages 523-532Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.30021
Keywords
alumina; ceramic; hip arthroplasty; simulator; wear
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The biphasic wear performance (run-in; steady-state phase) of 28-mm alumina-alumina hip implants was studied by hip simulator methods using bovine serum as the lubricant. The Biolox(TM) implants were run to 5.7 million cycles and Bioceram(TM) implants to 14.4 million cycles (Mc). Wear with all-alumina total hip replacements (THR) first showed a high wear rate of the order 1.2 mm(3)/Mc, lasting approximately 0.17 Mc. Overall to 0.7 Mc, the run-in phase appeared curvilinear but could be described by a linear phase averaging 0.3 mm(3)/Mc. From 0.7 to 1 Mc duration, the wear trend transitioned into a steady-state phase. Wear rates from 1 to 14 Mc were of the order 0.02 mm(3)/Mc. Surface contamination from the serum lubricant resulted in cyclic weight fluctuations of the order 0.2 mg. The transition from average run-in to steady-state phase represented a wear reduction of 13-fold. Comparing the steady-state wear value to that in standard 28-mm UHMWPE CUPS approaching 75 mm(3)/year, there was clearly a three-orders-of-magnitude wear superiority in favor of ceramic cups. (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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