Metal-on-Metal Bearings

Part I. Introduction

1. Overview of Metal-on-Metal Implants
Lynne C. Jones, Warren O. Haggard, A. Seth Greenwald

2. Bearing Surfaces for Joint Replacement: New Materials or New Problems
Stuart Goodman

Part II. Clinical

3. Outcome Studies for Metal-on-Metal Bearings: What Evidence-Based Medicine Tells Us
Michael A. Mont, Robert Pivec

4. Metal Reactivity: Its Influence on Primary and Revision Outcomes
George Grammatopoulos, Hemant Pandit, Adrian Low, David Murray

5. Are Metal Ion Levels a Trigger for Surgical Intervention?
David Langton

6. Metal Sensitivity: Is It Possible to Determine Clinically?
Nadim J. Hallab, Paul H. Wooley

Part III. Biology

7. Wound Healing, Chronic Inflammation, and Immune Responses
Paul H. Wooley, Nadim J. Hallab

8. Benign Responses to Orthopaedic Implants: Really?
H. John Cooper, Joshua J. Jacobs

9. What Does the Histology Tell Us?
Thomas W. Bauer

Part IV. Biomechanics

10. Why Metal-on-Metal: What Laboratory Tests Have Shown Us
Peter Thomas, Burkhard Summer, Marc Thomsen, Veit Krenn, Jan Philippe Kretzer

11. What Do the Retrievals Really Tell Us?
Robin Pourzal, Robert M. Urban, Markus A. Wimmer

Keywords: Materials Science, Biomaterials, Orthopedics, Biomedical Engineering, Metallic Materials, Molecular Medicine, Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings