Wear rate of UHMWPE tibial components articulating against PEEK-OPTIMAŽ and cobalt chrome femoral components (n=3) assessed by gravimetric analysis after 3 million cycles of wear simulaton under intermediate and 3 million cycles under high kinematic conditions (mm3/MC).							
Data relates to Figure 5 for Intermediate kinematics and Figure 7 for high kinematic conditions							
							
	Intermediate kinematics						
SAMPLE	cobalt chrome	PEEK-OPTIMAŽ					
1	1.30	1.82					
2	1.41	2.22					
3	2.02	3.44					
							
							
							
	High kinematics						
SAMPLE	cobalt chrome	PEEK-OPTIMAŽ					
1	2.13	3.40					
2	3.02	5.25					
3	1.54	4.67					
							
							
							
Wear volume of UHMWPE tibial components articulating against cobalt chrome and PEEK-OPTIMAŽ femoral components (n=3).  Wear was assessed by gravimetric analysis, 3 MC of wear simulation was carried out under intermediate kinematics and 3MC of wear simulation was carried out under high kinematics (mm3)							
Data relates to Figure 6							
							
	cycles (millions)	Cobalt chrome 1	Cobalt chrome 2	Cobalt chrome 3	PEEK-OPTIMAŽ 1	PEEK-OPTIMAŽ 2	PEEK-OPTIMAŽ 3
Intermediate kinematics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	0.94	1.30	1.41	2.02	1.82	2.22	3.44
	3	0.04	4.41	4.65	7.28	8.13	6.65
							
High Kinematics	4	2.91	6.21	6.18	10.31	12.16	9.55
	4.6	3.93	8.88	7.35	12.32	13.99	14.44
	6	6.55	13.21	9.24	17.43	23.89	20.18