Hip Simulator ‘Trifemur’ Poised for Marathon Tests, can Direcly Guage the Wear-Life Span of Regular Implants and Compare with that of the Dimpled Ball Types
Trifemur after augmentation proves as a holistic wear tester, both as ball-on-socket and ball-on-triplate type configuration. Unaccelerated but continuous testing of implants & lubricants just for few months, can characterize their decades long service limited by either wear depth or wear volume. This has to be tested and ascertained, to rank the Trifemur as a standard comparator. As if an island of stability is sighted in the sea of chaos, two pilot experiments confirmed the feasibility of reaching to the practical range of linear wear depth. Those experimental details and results using Trifemur are presented here.
