Is there material loss at the backside taper in modular CoCr acetabular liners?
The roundness machine has been used to develop a repeatable method for characterizing material loss; future work comparing a gravimetric standard with estimations of material loss determined from the roundness machine may show the accuracy and effectiveness of this method. Liners show rates of material loss that compare with those reported for other taper junctions. Visual inspection alone may misidentify as-manufactured regions as regions of material loss.
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