This study validates a hip joint simulator configuration as compared with other machines and clinical wear rates using smooth metal and ceramic femoral heads and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) acetabular cups. Secondly the wear rate of UHMWPE cups is measured in the simulator with deliberately scratched cobalt-chrome heads to represent the type of mild and severe scratch damage found on retrieved heads. Finally, the scratching processes are described and the resulting scratches compared with those found in retrieved cobalt-chrome heads. For smooth cobalt-chrome and zirconia heads the wear rates were found to be statistically similar to other simulator machines and within the normal range found from clinical studies. An increased wear rate was found with cobalt-chrome heads scratched using either the diamond stylus or the bead cobalt-chrome but the greatest increase was with the diamond scratched heads which generated scratches of similar dimensions to those on retrieved heads. A greater than twofold increase in wear rate is reported for these heads when compared with smooth heads. This increased wear rate is, however, still within the limits of data from clinical wear studies.

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