Smith + Nephew

Hamish Forster

Shilesh C Jani

Vivek Devidas Pawar

Jeffrey Joel Shea

Abraham Biglari Salehi

Gordon Bruce Hunter

Mark Lee Morrison

Timothy John Band

David C Kelman

Mason James Bettenga

Malcolm Brown

Horacio Montes De Oca Balderas

Jeff Shea

Gordon Hunter

Abraham Salehi

Mark Morrison

Tim Band

Vivek Pawar

A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.

Applications of diffusion hardening techniques

A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example CoCr, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.

The present disclosure relates to prosthetic implants, components of prosthetic implants, and methods of fixating the components to one another and, especially fixation of the implants to bone.

Prosthetic implants

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Memphis, TN, United States of America

Hamish Forster