Prosthesis with surfaces having different textures

摘要

A joint prosthesis system has two metal implant components (12,14) and a bearing (16). One of the metal implant components has an articulation surface (18,20,22) for articulation with the bearing. The other metal implant component has a mounting surface (26) for supporting the bearing. One of the metal implant components includes a solid metal portion (152F) and a porous metal portion (82F). The porous metal portion has surfaces with different characteristics, such as roughness, to improve bone fixation, ease removal of the implant component in a revision surgery, reduce soft tissue irritation, improve the strength of a sintered bond between the solid and porous metal portions, or reduce or eliminate the possibility of blood traveling through the porous metal portion into the joint space.