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Bone Material Properties of Human Phalanges Using Vickers Indentation
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the microhardness distribution throughout the human hand phalanges using the Vickers method, which can be used to directly evaluate the bone mechanical properties at tissue level and provide an alternative means to investigate bone quality. METHODS: The phalanges bones invo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6595111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31037844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/os.12455 |
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author | Yin, Bing Guo, Jia‐liang Wang, Jian‐zhao Li, Sheng Liu, Ya‐ke Zhang, Ying‐ze |
author_facet | Yin, Bing Guo, Jia‐liang Wang, Jian‐zhao Li, Sheng Liu, Ya‐ke Zhang, Ying‐ze |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To investigate the microhardness distribution throughout the human hand phalanges using the Vickers method, which can be used to directly evaluate the bone mechanical properties at tissue level and provide an alternative means to investigate bone quality. METHODS: The phalanges bones involved in this study were collected from three healthy donors; fresh‐frozen right limbs were used. The phalanges bones were dissected and cut into 3‐mm thick slices perpendicular to the long axis in the phalanges base, the phalanges shaft, and the phalanges head with a low‐speed saw and then the slices were polished with sandpaper. A microindenter fitted with a Vickers indenter point was used to measure the Vickers hardness in the plantar, dorsal, medial, and lateral sites of cortical bone in metatarsal shaft and trabecular bone in the metatarsal base and head. The indentation load and dwell time was set to 50 g and 12 s for both the cortical and cancellous tissues in this study. For each site or region, five valid values were recorded and averaged as the Vickers hardness for the site or region. RESULTS: In total, 96 bone slices were harvested from the base, shaft, and head of the 15 phalanges and 1920 indentations were performed. In general, the Vickers hardness in phalanges was 34.11 ± 7.95 HV. For the 5 phalanges, the 3rd phalanx showed the highest hardness (36.74 ± 7.10 HV), closely followed by the 1st (36.46 ± 5.96 HV) and 2nd (35.28 ± 6.52 HV) phalanx. The hardness in the 4th (31.90 ± 9.15 HV) and 5th (31.19 ± 8.22 HV) phalanx were significantly lower than in the other 3 phalanges. The hardness in the phalanx shaft (38.52 ± 6.67 HV) was significantly higher than that in both the base (30.73 ± 7.46 HV) and head (30.64 ± 6.81 HV) of the phalanx (F = 300.7, P = 0.000); no statistic difference existed between the base and head of the phalanx (P = 0.996). The Vickers hardness in the proximal, middle, and distal phalanx showed statistical difference in Vickers hardness (F = 19.278, P = 0.000). The proximal phalanx showed higher Vickers hardness than the middle phalanx in the 2nd to 5th phalanges (P = 0.002). CONCLUSION: This study reported on the Vickers hardness distribution of the human phalanges bone and provides the theoretical basis of differences in hardness, which will benefit the placement of plates and screws in orthopaedic surgery and contribute to the research on ideal artificial bones and 3D‐printed orthopaedic implants with inner gradient distribution of hardness. |
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spelling | pubmed-65951112019-09-10 Bone Material Properties of Human Phalanges Using Vickers Indentation Yin, Bing Guo, Jia‐liang Wang, Jian‐zhao Li, Sheng Liu, Ya‐ke Zhang, Ying‐ze Orthop Surg Scientific Articles OBJECTIVE: To investigate the microhardness distribution throughout the human hand phalanges using the Vickers method, which can be used to directly evaluate the bone mechanical properties at tissue level and provide an alternative means to investigate bone quality. METHODS: The phalanges bones involved in this study were collected from three healthy donors; fresh‐frozen right limbs were used. The phalanges bones were dissected and cut into 3‐mm thick slices perpendicular to the long axis in the phalanges base, the phalanges shaft, and the phalanges head with a low‐speed saw and then the slices were polished with sandpaper. A microindenter fitted with a Vickers indenter point was used to measure the Vickers hardness in the plantar, dorsal, medial, and lateral sites of cortical bone in metatarsal shaft and trabecular bone in the metatarsal base and head. The indentation load and dwell time was set to 50 g and 12 s for both the cortical and cancellous tissues in this study. For each site or region, five valid values were recorded and averaged as the Vickers hardness for the site or region. RESULTS: In total, 96 bone slices were harvested from the base, shaft, and head of the 15 phalanges and 1920 indentations were performed. In general, the Vickers hardness in phalanges was 34.11 ± 7.95 HV. For the 5 phalanges, the 3rd phalanx showed the highest hardness (36.74 ± 7.10 HV), closely followed by the 1st (36.46 ± 5.96 HV) and 2nd (35.28 ± 6.52 HV) phalanx. The hardness in the 4th (31.90 ± 9.15 HV) and 5th (31.19 ± 8.22 HV) phalanx were significantly lower than in the other 3 phalanges. The hardness in the phalanx shaft (38.52 ± 6.67 HV) was significantly higher than that in both the base (30.73 ± 7.46 HV) and head (30.64 ± 6.81 HV) of the phalanx (F = 300.7, P = 0.000); no statistic difference existed between the base and head of the phalanx (P = 0.996). The Vickers hardness in the proximal, middle, and distal phalanx showed statistical difference in Vickers hardness (F = 19.278, P = 0.000). The proximal phalanx showed higher Vickers hardness than the middle phalanx in the 2nd to 5th phalanges (P = 0.002). CONCLUSION: This study reported on the Vickers hardness distribution of the human phalanges bone and provides the theoretical basis of differences in hardness, which will benefit the placement of plates and screws in orthopaedic surgery and contribute to the research on ideal artificial bones and 3D‐printed orthopaedic implants with inner gradient distribution of hardness. John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6595111/ /pubmed/31037844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/os.12455 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Orthopaedic Surgery published by Chinese Orthopaedic Association and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Scientific Articles Yin, Bing Guo, Jia‐liang Wang, Jian‐zhao Li, Sheng Liu, Ya‐ke Zhang, Ying‐ze Bone Material Properties of Human Phalanges Using Vickers Indentation |
title | Bone Material Properties of Human Phalanges Using Vickers Indentation |
title_full | Bone Material Properties of Human Phalanges Using Vickers Indentation |
title_fullStr | Bone Material Properties of Human Phalanges Using Vickers Indentation |
title_full_unstemmed | Bone Material Properties of Human Phalanges Using Vickers Indentation |
title_short | Bone Material Properties of Human Phalanges Using Vickers Indentation |
title_sort | bone material properties of human phalanges using vickers indentation |
topic | Scientific Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6595111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31037844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/os.12455 |
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