title: Fifteen years of experience with the BiCONTACT hip endoprosthesis system--the past, the present, the future. What has been achieved?
abstract: The BiCONTACT endoprosthesis system, in addition to having a distinctly improved material structure (hardness, lubricant couple, reduction of abrasions, etc.), demonstrates characteristics geared towards providing uniform, optimal treatment under economically favourable conditions for the widest possible stock of patients. Furthermore, it secures local stability and freedom from pain as early as possible, sparing or--even better--building bone with a biologically orientated implantation technique and obtaining correspondingly acceptable medium- and long-term results via an appropriate surface coating for osseo-integration. The concept of the hip endoprosthesis, its design and implantation technique--which have not required modifications since its introduction in clinical practice 15 years ago--is capable of doing justice to all the individual, biological, instrumental and economic particularities mentioned.
authors.affiliation: siwetue@aol.com
authors.forename: Siegfried
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Weller
mesh_terms: D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001843:Bone Cements / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D016348:Osseointegration / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D001843:Bone Cements