With a portfolio of thousands of products, industrial plants offer stainless steel plate and screw systems for fixing bone fractures, devices for stabilizing and regenerating parts of the skeleton (interlocking nails) and cannulated screws for cancellous bones, to name a few.

But as each piece for a prosthesis or implant requires surgery, a kit with stainless steel tools goes into the production line of these companies.

Stainless steel is the material most commonly used in the manufacture of temporary and permanent orthopedic implants, such as pins, joints, fixation plates, screws and intramedullary rods for correcting fractured bones, and is also widely used in piercings.

In Brazil, the excellent cost-benefit ratio of stainless steel, when compared to other materials such as titanium and cobalt alloys, means that manufacturers are opting for this material to make parts in various shapes and sizes, such as femoral kneecaps, knee, elbow or hip joints and fixing wires.