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Searching to Replace PTFE

In the wear tester. Craven showed that both materials showed evidence of scratching the stainless steel counterface (presumably because of the glass fibers). However, the wear rates were improved. For instance, the wear tester predicted that the wear rate of Fluorosint would be 10 times lower than PTFE. Charnley ordered that cups be fashioned and implanted immediately. [Pg.64]

Proprietary-filled PTFE with trade name Eluorosint and glass-filled PTFE. [Pg.65]

After the clinical failures of filled PTFE, Charnley abandoned polymers entirely in early 1962 and started to implant Thompson prostheses. However, the gloom that pervaded Wrightington at that time was short lived, because a promising new material soon arrived at the hospital through a series of most [Pg.65]

Retrieved Eluorosint component (encased in pink acrylic dental cement). [Pg.65]

Introduction and Timeline 4.5 Interim Hip Arthroplasty 4.9 Searching to Replace PTFE... [Pg.31]

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