Ceramic Type Implants
Ceramic Type Implants
Ceramic hip replacements have been created to reduce the wear and tear on hip implants. Ceramic hip replacement implant are extremely hard and smooth. These qualities may aid in reducing the amount of wear on the implants.
The plastic in standard metal and plastic hip replacements wears away slowly over time. Small bits of plastic debris are produced as the plastic wears out. This plastic debris causes your body to react, which might cause the implants to loosen with time.
Plastic wear is quite slow, about 0.1 millimetres per year! Even this minor quantity of wear, however, creates millions of particles of wear debris. The amount of wear with ceramic hip replacements is a minuscule fraction of this amount. The expectation is that by producing less wear debris, hip replacements will not loosen as soon.
