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Manufacturing of “High-Tec” engineered Hip implant components from BIOLOX forte has proven to be very successful for Total Hip Replacement (THR). On the other hand, the number of safe advanced Ceramic products is still limited by several barriers like the high cost of development, the production of complex components and the problem to produce reliable high quality parts. The ability to penetrate significantly on the market is therefore more or less restricted to experienced companies. Hence, the existing of a manufacturing technique allowing to produce reliable high quality parts especially concerning complex components is a decisive step to produce knee components.
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Leyen, S. (2003). Are Ceramics in Total Knee Replacement only a Vision to be seen through the pink glasses of Visionaries? - Collaborative Development of Ceramic Knee Components. In: Zippel, H., Dietrich, M. (eds) Bioceramics in Joint Arthroplasty. Ceramics in Orthopaedics. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85763-8_19
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