Oxidation of orthopaedic UHMWPE

Biomaterials
Luigi CostaElena Maria Brach del Prever

Abstract

Retrieved EtO sterilised acetabular cups usually show much less degradation than gamma-ray sterilised cups. Some of our retrieved EtO sterilised cups did, however, reveal unexpected bulk oxidation. It was observed that this oxidation was always accompanied by whitening of the material. This whitening was found to be due to a break-up of the compression moulded material into its original particles. It was noticed that there was no oxidation in all parts, where the break-up and whitening appeared. The oxidation did, however, occur exclusively in the parts where there was a badly consolidated material. Upon examining shelf aged, unsterilised samples, it was found that the degradation was also present here. This shows that the observed phenomenon is not due to the service in vivo and that it must originate from the processing step. Just as for the retrieved samples, the shelf aged cups only showed oxidation in the bulk and not at the surface. It was concluded that the material used for the cups had been badly fused together during the compression moulding and that the machining had created a bad stress situation in the cups leading to a break-up of the particles. The mechanism that initiates the oxidation is not known, but it is be...Continue Reading

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