
CeramTec Medical Products Division
The
CeramTec Group is an international leading supplier of advanced ceramics with
annual sales of 556 million Euro and 3500 employees in Europe, Asia and
America. With a tradition of more than 100 years, CeramTec serves major markets
with innovative products, including the electronics, automotive, medical
technologies, machinery, metalworking, chemical as well as the energy and
environmental industries.
Since
1974 more than fifteen million ceramic BIOLOX® ball heads and BIOLOX® inserts
have been used in total hip replacements. Customers and surgeons all over the
world put their faith in the pink colored BIOLOX®delta ceramics.
The
very color gives surgeons the certainty that they are using implants of the
highest quality and reliability for their patients from CeramTec. BIOLOX®delta
is the only ceramic with 15 years of successful clinical experience and
with more than eight million sold components.
Components
from pink BIOLOX® material are also used in total knee replacements and other
applications which will be introduced in the near future.
BIOLOX®
ceramics worldwide have been successful for more than 45 years.
For
very good reasons:
•
Excellent biological behavior*
•
No known risk of allergy*
•
Safe in terms of metal ion release*
•
Reduced risk for PJI revisions*
•
A pathogenic reaction to ceramic particles is (very) unlikely*
•
Significantly lower taper corrosion*
•
Resistant to third-body wear*
•
Excellent wettability*
*References
available on file at CeramTec GmbH on request.
Address:
CeramTec GmbH, CeramTec Platz 1–9, 73207 Plochingen, Germany
Website:
www.biolox.com
www.ceramtec.com