The Trident® Acetabular Hip System Polyethylene inserts are intended for use with the mating Trident Acetabular Shells. The Trident Acetabular Shells are intended for cementless fixation. The Trident® Hip System components are for use in total hip arthroplasty to relieve pain and restore function for indications such as: painful, disabling joint disease of the hip resulting from: non-inflammatory degenerative arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, post-traumatic arthritis, or late stage avascular necrosis; revision of previous failed femoral head replacement, cup arthroplasty or other procedure; clinical management problems where arthrodesis or alternative reconstructive techniques are less likely to achieve satisfactory results, where bone stock is of poor quality or inadequate for other reconstructive techniques as indicated by deficiencies of the acetabulum.
Device Story
Trident® Hip System acetabular inserts replace bearing surfaces in total hip arthroplasty; relieves pain and restores function. Modification involves sequentially crosslinked and annealed polyethylene material sterilized via STERRAD gas plasma. Components mate with Trident® Acetabular Shells for cementless fixation. Used in clinical settings by orthopedic surgeons. Output is a mechanical bearing surface; clinical decision-making relies on surgeon assessment of joint disease and bone stock. Benefits include improved wear characteristics and stability for patients with degenerative bone disease, trauma, or failed prior implants.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only. No clinical data provided. Testing included material properties, wear testing, sterilization effects, dimensional assessment, disassembly force evaluation, and contact stress analysis.
Technological Characteristics
Acetabular inserts for total hip arthroplasty. Material: Sequentially crosslinked and annealed polyethylene. Sterilization: STERRAD gas plasma. Design: Semi-constrained, porous-coated uncemented prosthesis. Connectivity: None (mechanical implant).
Indications for Use
Indicated for patients requiring total hip arthroplasty due to painful, disabling joint disease (non-inflammatory degenerative arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, post-traumatic arthritis, late stage avascular necrosis), revision of failed previous procedures, or clinical management problems where alternative reconstructive techniques are less likely to succeed due to poor bone stock or acetabular deficiencies.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
A hip joint metal/polymer/metal semi-constrained porous-coated uncemented prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted to replace a hip joint. The device limits translation and rotation in one or more planes via the geometry of its articulating surfaces. It has no linkage across the joint. This generic type of device has a femoral component made of a cobalt-chromium-molybdenum (Co-Cr-Mo) alloy or a titanium-aluminum-vanadium (Ti-6Al-4V) alloy and an acetabular component composed of an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene articulating bearing surface fixed in a metal shell made of Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V. The femoral stem and acetabular shell have a porous coating made of, in the case of Co-Cr-Mo substrates, beads of the same alloy, and in the case of Ti-6Al-4V substrates, fibers of commercially pure titanium or Ti-6Al-4V alloy. The porous coating has a volume porosity between 30 and 70 percent, an average pore size between 100 and 1,000 microns, interconnecting porosity, and a porous coating thickness between 500 and 1,500 microns. The generic type of device has a design to achieve biological fixation to bone without the use of bone cement.
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## Summary of Safety and Effectiveness
| Contact Person: | Karen Ariemma<br>Regulatory Affairs Specialist<br>Howmedica Osteonics Corp.<br>325 Corporate Drive<br>Mahwah, NJ 07430<br>(201) 831-5718 (Phone)<br>(201) 831-6038 (FAX) |
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| Date: | February 3, 2005 |
| Device: | Trident® Hip System |
| Classification: | Prosthesis Hip, Semi-Constrained, Porous Coated,<br>Uncemented Prosthesis: 21 CFR 888.3358 |
| | Hip Joint Metal/Ceramic/Polymer Semi-constrained<br>cemented or nonporous uncemented prosthesis: 21 CFR<br>888.3353 |
| | Hip Joint Metal/Polymer Semi-Constrained Cemented<br>Prosthesis, 21 CFR 888.3350 |
| Device Product Codes: | 87 JDI, 87 LPH, 87 LWJ, 87 LZO, 87 MEH: |
| Predicate Devices: | Trident® Hip System |
| Indications for Use: | The Trident® Acetabular Hip System Polyethylene inserts<br>are intended for use with the mating Trident Acetabular<br>Shells. The Trident Acetabular Shells are intended for<br>cementless fixation. The Trident® Hip System components<br>are for use in total hip arthroplasty to relieve pain and<br>restore function for indications such as: painful, disabling<br>joint disease of the hip resulting from: non-inflammatory<br>degenerative arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, post-traumatic<br>arthritis, or late stage avascular necrosis; revision of<br>previous failed femoral head replacement, cup arthroplasty<br>or other procedure; clinical management problems where<br>arthrodesis or alternative reconstructive techniques are less<br>likely to achieve satisfactory results, where bone stock is of<br>poor quality or inadequate for other reconstructive<br>techniques as indicated by deficiencies of the acetabulum. |
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| Proposed Modification: | Addition of new polyethylene components of a modified<br>sequentially crosslinked and annealed material which has<br>undergone a STERRAD gas plasma sterilization. |
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| Device Description: | The device includes the acetabular inserts of a total hip<br>system. These components are used for the replacement of<br>the bearing surface of the acetabulum to relieve pain,<br>instability and the restriction of motion due to degenerative<br>bone disease, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis,<br>failure of other devices or trauma. |
| Summary of Data: | A risk analysis and research and development testing have<br>been performed to demonstrate equivalence of the proposed<br>products to the predicate devices. The testing includes<br>material properties testing; wear testing; the effect of<br>sterilization on the sequentially crosslinked and annealed<br>material; dimensional assessment of the sequentially<br>crosslinked and annealed material; disassembly force<br>evaluation; and contact stresses. |
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Food and Drug Administration 9200 Corporate Boulevard Rockville MD 20850
FEB 1 0 2005
Ms. Karen Ariemma Regulatory Affairs Specialist Howmedica Osteonics Corp. 325 Corporate Drive Mahwah, New Jersey 07430
Re: K033716
Trade/Device Name: Trident® Hip System Trade/Device Name: "Thuene" Thp 3558:21 CFR 888.3353 and 21 CFR 888.3350 Regulation Name: Hip joint metal/polymer/metal semi-constrained porous-coated uncemented prosthesis, Hip joint metal/ceramic/polymer semiancetrained cemented or nonporous uncemented prosthesis,Hip joint metal/polymer semi-constrained cemented prosthesis
Regulatory Class: II Product Code: LPH, LZO, JDI, MEH and LWJ Dated: December 14, 2004 Received: December 15, 2004
Dear Ms. Ariemma:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device wt nave reviewed four becalent of the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate for use sured in the encreases in the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to commerce prior to rias 2011-12-11 in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, devices mark nave occh recident a newee approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The r ou may, mereleve, mains of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of general voltrols pro reserving practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration.
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## Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known): K033716
## Device Name: Trident Hip System - Polyethylene Inserts
Indications For Use:
The Trident® Acetabular Hip System Polyethylene inserts are intended for use with the mating Trident® Acetabular Shells. The Trident® Acetabular Shells are intended for cementless fixation. The Trident® Acetabular Hip System Polyethylene inserts are indicated for use in total hip arthroplasty in the following instances:
- Painful, disabling joint disease of the hip resulting from: non-inflammatory . degenerative arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, post-traumatic arthritis, or late stage avascular necrosis.
- Revision of previous failed femoral head replacement, cup arthroplasty or other . procedure.
- Clinical management problems where arthrodesis or alternative reconstructive � techniques are less likely to achieve satisfactory results.
- Where bone stock is of poor quality or inadequate for other reconstructive � techniques as indicated by deficiencies of the acetabulum.
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1. Search: exact and fuzzy
Type a phrase like "coronary artery calcification" into the search box. You get two kinds of results. Exact results match the literal phrase — prefix searches work ("coronary artery calcificati") but suffix searches do not. Fuzzy results match on the meaning and intent of your phrase rather than the exact words, and are sorted by relevance score. Hover over the Exact or Fuzzy badge on any row to see exactly why it matched.
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Exact vs. fuzzy search: what's the difference?
Exact matches on the literal phrase (prefix search works, suffix does not). Fuzzy matches on the meaning and intent of the phrase rather than the exact words. Hover over the badge on any row to see why it matched.
You search "coronary artery calcification" and want only software devices with AI. What two filters do you apply?
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2. The results table
Scroll right in the results table. The intended use is extracted for you — no need to open the PDF. The device story gives a high-level snapshot of what the device does and how it's used. The AI Performance sub-table shows each output name, acceptance criteria, observed values, and development/test dataset descriptions — the same format Innolitics uses for regulatory strategy outputs, and the fastest high-level fingerprint of an AI device. It is AI-generated but has been very reliable in practice.
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Scroll right in the search results table. The intended use column is extracted for you; no need to dig into the 510(k) summary PDF.
What does the AI Performance sub-table show, and why is it useful?
Output name, acceptance criteria, observed values, development dataset description, and test dataset description. It's the same format we use for regulatory strategy output and Fast 510(k) input, and the fastest high-level fingerprint of an AI device. AI-generated but reliable in practice.
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Fuzzy results trail off in relevance as you scroll. Use three signals to decide how far down to go: the fuzzy badge explanations, the intended use column, and whether your target output (e.g., Cobb angle) still appears in the AI Performance sub-table. Once it stops appearing, you're past the relevant zone. A top hit with a low score (~0.4) and a stretched explanation is a hint the closest predicates are far away — the project may be headed for De Novo. Note the fuzzy search is a pattern match: it doesn't handle negation ("not") well, and hardware devices can appear — filter by SaMD/AI ML to cut them.
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How do you verify an AI chat answer on the device detail page?
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Reading rule for every project: how many summaries do you read in full?
At least the three most relevant 510(k) or De Novo summaries, in full. After that, use targeted chat questions to confirm your memory quickly. The tool supports this professional habit — it doesn't replace it.
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Select multiple rows in the results table (aim for under ~10), then open the PDF Viewer tab. Ask one question — it goes to all selected devices in parallel, each with citations. This is the fastest way to compare and contrast devices: training data, PCCP scope, how they handled adding new scanners, and so on.
What does the side-by-side PDF viewer mode do?
Select multiple devices, open the PDF viewer tab, and ask one question (e.g., "Describe the training data"). It queries all selected devices simultaneously with citations, so you can compare and contrast quickly.
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With rows selected, go to the Collections tab and create a labeled collection (e.g., "Cobb Angle Project"). Reload that selection any time — before a client call, pull up the collection and ask questions across all of its devices at once.
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Browse product codes and regulation numbers, read the identification text and special controls, browse sibling product codes, open device PDFs on the right, and search by product code or regulation number at the top of the tree.
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Click Show Chart and segment by regulation number (or product code) to see which regulations dominate your result set. Clicking a regulation takes you into the regulations tree. Great for spotting that most matches are, say, hardware laparoscopic devices — a cue to go back and filter.
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Click "Show Chart" and segment by Regulation Number. Clicking a regulation takes you to the regulations tree.
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Try it yourself
Head to the search page and work through a few of these AI/ML fuzzy searches to build intuition: perivascular fat on CT · aortic valve calcification opportunistic screening on noncontrast CT · breast cancer prediction on digital pathology slides · autism detection · gestational age prediction · a hearing aid that can also detect a pulse · foundation model based analysis of ECG · large language models · penetration test. Watch how the relevance scores, intended use, and AI Performance tables tell you when results stop being meaningful.