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A BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF CEMENT TO ANCHOR THE FEMORAL HEAD PROSTHESIS



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Abstract

It has been shown by mechanical analysis that by using cement to bond the stem of a femoral head prosthesis to bone two advantages are obtained when the conditions are compared with conventional methods.

1. "Fretting" between the implant and the living bone is eliminated. This source of persistent relative movement is probably the most important starting point for the progressive loosening of weight-bearing implants.

2. When cement is used the bond with the bone is exposed to stresses which are of an order three hundred times less than the shear strength of bone. The conventional prostheses expose the bond to compressive stresses which are near to the failure limits of the compressive strength of bone, especially in elderly patients with atrophic cortical bone in the femoral neck.

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