The skull success could be just a precursor to other bones like femurs ... but the implant signals a big step forward for the use of 3D-printed materials in medical situations.

Using a surface-hardening treatment to improve wear performance, the implant ... enhances the material's firmness, offering particle release resistance. The latest revision femur component is ...

Natural materials like bone ... Zhang said this technique can be applied to various biological implants wherever stress manipulation is needed. "The method itself is quite general and can be ...

Persona is a cementless total knee implant ... PPS Femur combines our latest advances in cementless fixation with decades of proprietary clinical expertise in developing novel materials and ...

Zimmer Biomet said it would commercially launch the femur implant in the first quarter of next year. In late November, the company also obtained a separate FDA premarket approval for a cementless ...

Moreover, the new implant material is designed to be more compatible ... Additionally, experiments performed on a rat distal femur model demonstrated improved early-stage bonding between the ...

During knee replacement operations, the femur must be coated by a metal plate, and typically surgeons choose the best-fitting implant from a range of designs and sizes. It is important that the ...

Zimmer Biomet announced FDA clearance of its Persona solution porous plasma spray femur implant for knee replacement ... expertise in developing novel materials and surface hardening processes.