X3 Bearing Technology from Stryker

X3 is a material advancement in bearing technology. As a pioneer in wear-performance technologies, Stryker Orthopaedics has been dedicated to offering bearing surface improvements. Building upon the clinical success of Duration and Crossfire Polyethylene, Stryker developed a new annealing process with three sequential irradiation/annealing steps to create the X3 technology. 

Features & Benefits:

Stryker’s X3 Bearing technology is the first highly crosslinked polyethylene to offer:

• Structural fatigue strength better than conventional polyethylene1,
• 97 percent wear reduction over conventional polyeythylene; greater than first-generation highly-crosslinked polyethylene
• Oxidation resistance similar to virgin polyethylene