Titanium orthopedic plates promise great biocompatibility but fail in practice: screws strip and bone overgrows the plate, making removal nearly impossible. Surgeons abandon the material. The real problem isn't thickness but contouring. Most systems have poor contouring that causes more clinical trouble than bulk ever could.
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I mean, every orthopedic resident comes out of training, has the best modulus of elasticity compared to bone, biocompatibility is the greatest product ever. I'm like, you say that now, take one titanium plate out and then you tell me. And then they take that first titanium plate out and all the screws are stripped and they're, they're chiseling it out because the bone grew around the plate. And then they're like, yeah, I'm never using this again. But I mean, it still is a phenomenal product. The thicknesses, I mean, we are a thinner, lower profile 3.5 version when we talk about clavicle with respect to what the, our competitors are when it comes to 3-5. The thickness of the plate is one thing, but having a poorly contoured plate is actually more of a problem than the thickness of the plate. There's a lot of systems that are heavily used that just the contouring isn't very good, and that's actually the problem.