Painful hip arthritis refractory to medical management resulting from post-traumatic arthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Painful femoral head. cup arthroplasty, or bi-polar or universal type femoral head replacement. Cases where more conventional arthroplasty techniques or arthrodesis are contraindicated because of a difficult clinical management problem, age, sex, occupation, or height of the patient The Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System components are intended for use in total hip arthroplasty in primary or revision surgery of skeletally mature patients. The Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System shells and liners are single use implants intended for cemented or cementless arthroplasty.
Device Story
Acetabular cup system replaces articular surface of acetabular socket in hip joint; used in primary or revision total hip arthroplasty. System comprises Ti6Al4V alloy shells with porous CP-Ti bead coating and TiN ceramic thin film; UHMWPe liners; Ti6Al4V bone screws. Surgeon implants device in OR; components provide bearing surface for modular femoral heads. Shells feature anatomical rim to limit impingement; liners lock into shells via flexible lip tabs. Device restores joint function, reduces pain, and improves mobility in patients with degenerative hip disease. Compatible with specific BioPro femoral heads and stems.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only. Testing included porous coating strength (ASTM F1147, F1044), bearing liner connection (ASTM F1820), range of motion analysis (ISO 21535), bone screw testing (ASTM F543), wear simulation (ISO 14242), wear particle characterization (ASTM F1877), TiN coating analysis, jump distance analysis, and impingement fatigue testing (ASTM F2582).
Technological Characteristics
Shells: Ti-6Al-4V (ASTM F136) with CP-Ti (ASTM F67) porous coating and TiN ceramic thin film. Liners: GUR 1020 highly cross-linked UHMWPe (ASTM F648). Screws: Ti-6Al-4V (ASTM F136). Shells available 50-66mm OD; liners 39-52mm ID. Fixation: Cemented or cementless. Mechanical locking mechanism with lip tabs.
Indications for Use
Indicated for skeletally mature patients requiring primary or revision total hip arthroplasty due to painful arthritis (post-traumatic, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid), painful femoral head, or failed prior arthroplasty/replacement where conventional techniques are contraindicated.
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.
Predicate Devices
Endomedics Inc. Acetabular Cup and screw (K842202)
Protek Inc. Modified New Jersey Acetabular component & bone screws (K884888)
Reference Devices
DePuy Pinnacle Acetabular Cup System, ESL Marathon liners, Ultima Unipolar Femoral Heads, Self-Centering Hip Prosthesis (K033273)
Stryker Modular Dual Mobility Acetabular System (K182468)
Stryker Modular Dual Mobility Acetabular System (K151264)
Pinnacle AltrX Acetabular cup Liner DePuy: Marathon (K062148)
Biocore9 Femoral Head Resurfacing Component (K201219)
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Biocore9, LLC. Stephen Peoples Consultant 9 Whippany Rd, Bldg A1, Unit 12 Whippany, New Jersey 07981
Re: K212761
Trade/Device Name: Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System Regulation Number: 21 CFR 888.3358 Regulation Name: Hip Joint Metal/Polymer/Metal Semi-Constrained Porous-Coated Uncemented Prosthesis Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: LPH, JDI Dated: April 15, 2022 Received: April 15, 2022
Dear Stephen Peoples:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. Although this letter refers to your product as a device, please be aware that some cleared products may instead be combination products. The 510(k) Premarket Notification Database located at https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm identifies combination product submissions. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading.
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Sincerely,
Limin Sun, Ph.D. Acting Assistant Director DHT6A: Division of Joint Arthroplasty Devices OHT6: Office of Orthopedic Devices Office of Product Evaluation and Quality Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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# Indications for Use
#### 510(k) Number (if known) K212761
#### Device Name
Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System
#### Indications for Use (Describe)
1. Painful hip arthritis refractory to medical management resulting from post-traumatic arthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis.
2. Painful femoral head. cup arthroplasty, or bi-polar or universal type femoral head replacement.
3. Cases where more conventional arthroplasty techniques or arthrodesis are contraindicated because of a difficult clinical management problem, age, sex, occupation, or height of the patient
The Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System components are intended for use in total hip arthroplasty in primary or revision surgery of skeletally mature patients. The Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System shells and liners are single use implants intended for cemented or cementless arthroplasty.
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X Prescription Use (Part 21 CFR 801 Subpart D)
Over-The-Counter Use (21 CFR 801 Subpart C)
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### 510(k) SUMMARY
In accordance with the Food and Drug Administration Rule to implement provisions of the Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 and in conformance with 21 CFR 807.92, this information serves as a Summary of Safety and Effectiveness for the use of the Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System.
| Submitted by: | Biocore9, LLC.<br>9 Whippany Road, Bldg A1, Unit 12.<br>Whippany NJ 07981<br>(973)-585-4281 |
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| Contact Person: | Stephen J. Peoples, VMD, MS, FAOA<br>Email: speoplesVMD@gmail.com |
| Date Prepared: | August 30th, 2021 |
| Proprietary Name:<br>Common Name: | Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System<br>Acetabular Cup System |
| Classification Name: | 21 CFR 888.3358 –Hip Joint metal/polymer/metal semi-<br>constrained porous coated uncemented prosthesis<br>21 CFR 888.3350 Hip joint metal/polymer semi-constrained<br>cemented prosthesis |
| Device Product Codes: | LPH, JDI |
| Primary Predicate Device: | K842202 Endomedics Inc. Acetabular Cup and screw |
| Additional Predicate Devices: | K884888 Protek Inc. Modified New Jersey Acetabular<br>component &bone screws |
| Reference Devices: | K033273 DePuy Pinnacle Acetabular Cup System, ESL<br>Marathon liners, Ultima Unipolar Femoral Heads, Self-<br>Centering Hip Prosthesis. |
| | K182468 & K151264 Stryker Modular Dual Mobility<br>Acetabular System |
| | K062148 Pinnacle AltrX Acetabular cup Liner DePuy:<br>Marathon |
| | K201219 Biocore9 Femoral Head Resurfacing Component<br>K193122 Biocore9 Humeral Resurfacing System |
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# Device Description
The subject Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System includes acetabular shells, liners, and acetabular bone screws. Components are intended to replace the articular surface of the acetabular socket in the patient's hip joint. It is intended for the reconstruction of painful and/or severely disabled hip joints resulting from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis for patients who would be candidates for total hip procedure, whose acetabular socket has not been excessively damaged by disease or trauma and where damage is primarily associated with the articular surface damage. Acetabular components are available in nine sizes with available outside diameters from 50 mm to 66 mm in 2 mm increments. Bearing components are available in fourteen sizes from 39 mm to 52 mm ID in 1 mm increments. Screw components are available in 6.5 mm diameter in five sizes from 15 mm to 50 mm lengths.
Biocore9 Cancellous Bone screws are manufactured from Ti6A14V alloy (ASTM F136) with low profile screw heads designed to fit the Acetabular shells with nominal diameter of 6.5 mm.
The acetabular shell components are manufactured from Ti-6A1-4V alloy (ASTM F136) with a single radius spherical outer geometry coated with three layers of Commercially Pure (CP)-Ti (ASTM F67) spherical bead porous coating allowing for cemented or cementless fixation and an anatomical shaped rim to limit impingement with the femoral side of the joint or the psoas muscle. A crescent peripheral groove provides for assembly interlock and three rim tabs provide anti rotational interlock with the bearing liner. The acetabular shells are available in two configurations: one with no screw holes and a second with five screw holes for supplemental bone screw fixation. All surfaces are coated with Titanium Nitride (TiN) thin film ceramic coating. Porous structured acetabular shells are intended for cemented fixation.
The acetabular cup bearing liner components are manufactured from UHMWPe (ASTM F648), GUR 1020 Highly cross linked UHMWPe (75KGy MRad /post irradiation annealed) which locks into the acetabular cup shell with ten flexible lip tabs and has three rotation resisting tabs. The liners have inner diameters (ID) intended for use with modular, unipolar, self-centering (bipolar), metallic or ceramic femoral heads within the 39-52 mm OD range and articulate with a femoral head of an appropriate corresponding diameter.
The components of the subject device are compatible with the BioPro PSL Hip System femoral head and stems.
The 510k numbers for the compatible BioPro devices are listed below:
- BioPro PC Femoral Hip Component (K882146), O
- O BioPro Hemi-Endo Modular Head (K895886),
- BioPro Ziralloy Modular Femoral Head (K912641 & K925682), O
- BioPro PSL Total Hip Replacement System (K922500), O
- BioPro Hemi-Endo Modular Ceramic Head (K954768), O
- BioPro BiPolar Head (K100761) O
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# Indications for Use
1. Painful hip arthritis refractory to medical management resulting from post-traumatic arthritis, osteoarthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis.
2. Painful femoral head. cup arthroplasty, or bi-polar or universal type femoral head replacement.
3. Cases where more conventional arthroplasty techniques or arthrodesis are contraindicated
because of a difficult clinical management problem, age, sex, occupation, or height of the patient
The Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System components are intended for use in total hip arthroplasty in primary or revision surgery of skeletally mature patients. Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System Shells and Liners are single use implants intended for cemented or cementless arthroplasty.
## Non-Clinical Performance Testing
Performance testing was conducted in-order-to provide support in establishing substantial equivalence of technological characteristics.
- . Testing was conducted for the Porous coating: Tensile strength (ASTM F1147), Shear strength (ASTM F1044), Porosity.
- . Bearing Liner connection was tested for the worst case. Tests performed were push-out force, lever out force and axial torque (ASTM F1820).
- . A range of motion analysis by 3D modeling (ISO 21535) was conducted for the typical worst-case evaluation and compared the subject system to the competitive devices in three planes.
- Bone screw testing was conducted in accordance with ASTM F543, Standard . Specification and Test Methods for Metallic Medical Bone Screws, for torsion (torque to failure) and screw pull-out (pull-out to failure).
- Wear simulation was conducted on the 52 mm ID highly cross-linked poly bearing liners. Prior to testing these were subjected to two EO-sterilization cycles and double duration accelerated aging. The wear simulation was in accordance with ISO 14242, using a standard walking gait cycle as specified by ISO 14242-1.
- Wear particle characterization was conducted (ASTM F1877).
- Testing was conducted for the TiN Coating: Thickness, Adhesion Strength to Ti6A14V ● substrate, Abrasion resistance, Wear resistance Mode 1
- Dimensional and geometric comparison with predicate device was conducted. ●
- Jump Distance Analysis was conducted. ●
- . Impingement fatigue testing per ASTM F2582 was conducted followed by postimpingement disassembly testing per ASTM F1820.
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## Summary of Technological Characteristics
Device comparisons and performance testing show that the Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System is substantially equivalent to the predicates in terms of intended use, indications for use, design, sizes, materials, performance characteristics, biocompatibility, sterilization, and operational principles.
## Substantial Equivalence
The Biocore9 Acetabular Cup System shares the same indications for use as the predicate components and has comparable design features and technological characteristics. The fit and function of the subject device, supported by performance testing, does not raise any new questions of safety and effectiveness when compared to the predicate devices.
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