Features & Benefits:Key advantages include:
     1.Less Wear :The insert and head of the Trident Ceramic System are both made of alumina ceramic, which has demonstrated significantly lower wear versus conventional plastic-on-metal^1,2 or metal-on-metal^1,2 joint systems in the laboratory. It is anticipated that the improved wear characteristics of alumina ceramic will result in a longer lasting implant.
    2.Patented Titanium Sleeve:The Trident Ceramic Acetabular System is a unique design that features a patented Titanium sleeve encapsulating the ceramic that is pre-assembled at the factory. The titanium sleeve helps to increase the material strength of the ceramic insert by 50 percent versus other ceramic inserts on the market¹.
    3.Time-testing in U.S. Clinical Study:Stryker initiated the first U.S. Clinical Study of contemporary ceramic-on-ceramic hip replacements in 1996. The clinical study includes over 1,500 hip surgeries at 16 Centers in the United States.

Trident Ceramic Acetabular Components	Trident Ceramic Acetabular Components
Trident Ceramic Femoral Head shown inside Sleeve and Shell	Trident Ceramic Acetabular Components
Pre-Operative	Post-Operative

    2. Taylor, S.K., "In-Vitro Wear Performance of a Contemporary Alumina:Alumina Bearing Couple under Anatomically-Relevant Hip Simulation," in Reliability and Long-Term Results of Ceramics in Orthopaedics: 4th International CeramTec Symposium, L. Sedel, . Willmann, eds., Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1999.