JBJS, November 1, 2003, Volume 85, Issue suppl_4

Current Status of Zirconia Used in Total Hip Implants

I.C. Clarke, PhD M. Manaka, MD D.D. Green, MS P. Williams, MS G. Pezzotti, PhD Y.-H. Kim, MD M. Ries, MD N. Sugano, MD L. Sedel, MD C. Delauney, MD B. Ben Nissan, PhD T. Donaldson, MD G.A. Gustafson, MD

Hip

“Zirconia Ceramics or `By Night, All Cats Are Grey.’”1 This was the curious title given four years ago to a French study regarding the controversy over zirconia in total hip replacement. The authors of that study commented: “In the absence of rigorous scientific clarification, information on biomaterials is frequently a source of confusion and misleading generalisations worrying to orthopaedic surgeons.”

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