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Nanocoating designed to keep hip implants where they belong Probably the simplest way to describe an artificial hip would be to say that it’s a ball attached to a stem. The stem is often fastened to the open end of the femur using a glass-like polymer known as bone cement, while the ball takes the place of the original hip bone’s ball joint, rotating within a corresponding implant in the socket of the pelvis. Although problems can occur at that ball-and-socket interface, they can also result when the bone cement cracks, causing the stem to detach from the femur. Scientists at MIT, however, have developed a new type of nanoscale film coating, designed to keep that from happening... Continue Reading Nanocoating designed to keep hip implants where they belong Section: Health and Wellbeing Tags: Bones, Implant, MIT, Nanotechnology, Stem Cells Related Articles: New bones from old woodNanocoating leads to better-attached dental implantsDental implants could be grown inside patients' mouthsRadical tissue scaffold to treat knee injuries'Flower Bouquet' nanoclusters strengthen titanium implant attachmentsTitanium foam bone replacements on the way
Nanocoating designed to keep hip implants where they belong
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