30 Years In The Making: Himed Gets Its Own Mailing Address
You know that saying, “If it’s not broken, why fix it?” Well, what if something isn’t necessarily broken but could be made better with a few simple changes? That’s exactly the way we saw our address system.
Himed was founded 30 years ago within the facilities of an aerospace coating provider called Hitemco. We’ve since expanded into our own nearby facilities and our business has grown to become a leader in the biomaterials industry.
Yet, through all these years, we’ve been using Hitemco’s shipping and receiving. That setup certainly wasn't broken but we realized we could streamline the process by implementing our own address.
Himed Announces New MATRIX Dual® White Paper Publication
As the medical industry continues to explore the conditions for successful implant integration with the human body, closer attention is being paid to the surface morphology of a given device. That “closer attention” is taken quite literally in our latest white paper. In it, four case studies are reviewed that use advanced scanning technology to characterize—at the submicron and nanoscale level—surfaces treated with our two-step MATRIX Dual® process.
The Best Possible Outcome: The Importance of Post-Processing to Optimize Surface Morphology in Spinal Implants
Here at Himed, we are gearing up for the BIOMEDevice and the NASS trade shows in Boston. So we started asking ourselves what we were most excited about in orthopedic advancements in general, and spinal health in particular. The answer—perhaps not surprisingly for a surface treatment company—are the benefits that patients experience when spinal implants undergo optimizing surface treatments after manufacture.
Titanium, Rabbits, and Tiny Microscopes: Dr. Brånemark’s Unlikely Discovery of the Modern Dental Implant
If you ever went searching for your car keys but found a $100 bill instead, you might feel a little like Dr. Per-Ingvar Brånemark. He was looking into how blood flow affects bone healing—and he ended up discovering osseointegration.
Better osseointegration is one of our primary goals at Himed. When we develop surface treatments and coatings, we do it with the aim of improving the integration of implants with a patient’s bones. The very phrase “osseointegration” was coined by Dr. Brånemark, who is now considered the father of the modern dental implant. Before his work, the medical community was pretty sure that such a thing wasn’t even possible.
On the Path Towards 3D Printing Directly in the Body
Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney have created a novel ink for 3D printing—one with major advantages for doctors and patients. The idea of 3D printing implants using biocompatible materials is not new. Here at Himed, we’ve been working to improve biocompatible calcium phosphate scaffolding agents for ten years, both to help patients today and in preparation for on-demand implant printing.