Load-carrying components for artificial joints are made of bioinert alloys. Coating bioinert implants with bioactive hydroxyapatite ceramics offers a potential for biological interaction between the bone and the coated implant, which enables positive biological/chemical material connections. The author discusses some marginal design conditions applicable to the coating of implants with hydroxyapatite using the example of total hip replacement. There is highly convincing experience available from more than ten years of clinical application.
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G. Willmann (1999) studied this question.