The Conserve Plus is a hip resurfacing device from Wright Medical which obtained FDA approval in 2009. The socket is manufactured from cast cobalt-chrome and it has a sintered porous coating for cementless fixation. The geometry of the socket includes a 170 degree coverage angle, and the edge of...

The Cormet 2000 hip resurfacing is manufactured from cast cobalt chromium molybdenum. The acetabular component has a plasma sprayed titanium coating (Corin’s Bi-coat) and has an equatorially expanded geometry with anti-rotation fins. The femoral component comes in both cemented and...

The Durom hip resurfacing is a metal-on-metal hip resurfacing introduced in 2003. The device has a Metasul® bearing, which is wrought-forged Cobalt Chrome – the Protasul-21 WF alloy. This bearing was developed by Sulzer (subsequently Centerpulse, itself acquired by Zimmer in 2003), and...

The Global Tissue Sparing (GTS) primary hip stem is a short uncemented hip stem intended to spare bone and possibly soft tissue. In an early series of 81 stems in 80 patients, there was one calcar fracture and no loosening at a mean of 16 months (6 to 24 months). Reference: Morales...

The MIHR International Hip Resurfacing is a cast high-carbon cobalt chrome metal-on-metal hip resurfacing device intended to facilitate “small incision” surgery, and which has an appropriately specialised set of instruments for doing so. These include a retractor, femoral head...