ArmorCoat™

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ArmorCoat - Side View
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ArmorCoat - Side View
Surgical

ArmorCoat™

The New Gold Standard
Coated Protection for Maximum Performance

Clinically Proven

  • DJO is the first in the US to offer ArmorCoat™ although it has been used in Europe for over 20 years.
  • With a 15 year, 79,000 implant history, no complications or recalls have occurred with the ArmorCoat™ coating.

Decreased Metal Ion Debris

  • The chrome and nickel ions were not detectable
  • The release of cobalt ions was reduced by more than 90% with the ArmorCoat™ coated specimen.

Hardness and Roughness

  • In a standard pin on disc wear test, ArmorCoat™ pincs produced 40% less wear than standard CoCr pins articulating with standard polyethylene.
  • ArmorCoat™ components are measured at a roughness of less than .05 µm, which is approximately half the roughness of uncoated CoCr components.
  • ArmorCoat™ is 4 to 5 times harder than conventional CoCr and is twice as hard as Smith and Nephew’s OXINIUM.™ Surface hardness is correlated with abrasion resistance and stiffness

ArmorCoat Hardness

  1. Data on file, DOT
  2. Goyal, Megh R. Biomechanics of Artificial Organs and Prostheses CRC Press, 2014, p.503
  3. M. Long, L. Riester, and G. Hunter, “Nano-hardness measurements of oxidized Zr-2.5Nb and various orthoaedic materials”, Trans. Soc. Biomaterials, 21, 1998, p. 528