Smart coating opens door to safer hip, knee and dental implants. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 02 / 100203101120.htm ...

Total knee arthroplasty implants with porous and hydroxyapatite coatings and fixation pegs had similar clinical outcomes and survivorship rates compared with knee implants with a porous coating ...

A hybrid implant coating made from antibacterial silver and an antibiotic will protect patients from infection in the future. The antibiotic is tailored to the patient's unique requirements for ...

Dr Manuj Wadhwa For years, traditional knee replacement surgery has relied on bone cement to secure implants, a method that ...

Applications expected to benefit from the use of Laserapatite include hip implants and knee implants. The latter are being tested with a coating system that operates in air, incorporating YAG and CO 2 ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a "smart coating" that helps dental and other surgical implants bond more closely with bone and ward off infection. When patients have hip ...

The improvement in durability of cementless TKA implants has to do with the “evolution of porous coating,” according to C. Anderson “Andy” Engh, MD, of the Anderson Orthopedic Clinic.

Knee replacement revision surgery for instability or stiffness. Ligaments around the knee can become loose and unstable. Sometimes treatment can be nonsurgical, like physical therapy and bracing.

People have been getting knee replacement surgery for decades -- and 600,000 people will have the surgery this year alone. Now, there is a new personalized knee implant which is made specifically ...

When patients have hip, knee or dental replacement surgery, they run the risk of having their bodies reject the implant. But the smart coating developed at NC State mitigates that risk by ...