IMPLANT MATERIALS STRENGTHENED TO DEAL WITH LONGER LIFESPANS
September 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON
DEMAND for hip and knee implants is rising, partly because patients are too damned healthy and partly because they are overweight. While obesity's strain on joints is obvious, being active longer in life is also ruining joints, and at a much younger age.
Combine that with an increasingly longer life expectancy, it is clear implants need to last much longer.
The Netherlands-based DSM Biomedical company seems to have a solution. It has created a new polyethylene polymer platform, the plastic used in implants, which could transform implant ...
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