What is it about?
This study considered what happened in the pelvic bone after the implant of Trabecular Titanium hip cups. Trabecular Titanium is a special material that is made from titanium powder using a special electron bean melting machine. So it is not a coating and it is highly bio-compatible.
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Why is it important?
Osteointegration is the most important process that allow the hip cups to be fixed and to achieve good clinical results. Measuring the bone density with the DEXA analisys is the most reliable, less invasive, method to see what the bone remodeling do around the prosthetic cups.
Perspectives
The study is ongoing and I hope to publish the data after 5 years follow-up.
Leo Massari
Universita degli Studi di Ferrara
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Periacetabular Bone Densitometry after Total Hip Arthroplasty with Highly Porous Titanium Cups: A 2-Year Follow-Up Prospective Study, Hip International, November 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.5301/hipint.5000509.
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