K Number
K955563
Date Cleared
1996-08-09

(247 days)

Product Code
Regulation Number
888.3358
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Intended Use

Biolox ceramic heads and Foundation™ Forged, Textured and Porous Stems are intended for treatment of patients who are candidates for total hip arthroplasty because the natural femoral head and neck have been affected by osteoarthritis, inflammatory arthritis, traumatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, avascular necrosis or femoral neck fracture, and revision arthroplasty where bone loss is minimal.

Device Description

Biolox ceramic heads for use with Foundation™ Forged, Textured and Porous Stems that were cleared for commercial distribution in K952191, K935263 and K952297, respectively.

AI/ML Overview

This document does not describe a medical device that uses AI or machine learning, nor does it provide information about a study involving performance metrics, sample sizes, ground truth establishment, or expert evaluations.

The document is a "Summary of Safety and Effectiveness" for a physical medical device: "Biolox ceramic heads for use with Foundation™ Forged, Textured and Porous Stems." It describes the device, its intended use, and its comparability to predicate devices.

Therefore, I cannot extract the requested information such as acceptance criteria, study details, sample sizes, ground truth, or expert qualifications, as this information is not present in the provided text.

§ 888.3358 Hip joint metal/polymer/metal semi-constrained porous-coated uncemented prosthesis.

(a)
Identification. A hip joint metal/polymer/metal semi-constrained porous-coated uncemented prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted to replace a hip joint. The device limits translation and rotation in one or more planes via the geometry of its articulating surfaces. It has no linkage across the joint. This generic type of device has a femoral component made of a cobalt-chromium-molybdenum (Co-Cr-Mo) alloy or a titanium-aluminum-vanadium (Ti-6Al-4V) alloy and an acetabular component composed of an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene articulating bearing surface fixed in a metal shell made of Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V. The femoral stem and acetabular shell have a porous coating made of, in the case of Co-Cr-Mo substrates, beads of the same alloy, and in the case of Ti-6Al-4V substrates, fibers of commercially pure titanium or Ti-6Al-4V alloy. The porous coating has a volume porosity between 30 and 70 percent, an average pore size between 100 and 1,000 microns, interconnecting porosity, and a porous coating thickness between 500 and 1,500 microns. The generic type of device has a design to achieve biological fixation to bone without the use of bone cement.(b)
Classification. Class II.