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Average wear rate for each combination of polyethylene and CoCrMo disc in milligram per million cycles
| Pin | Average wear rate [mg/MC]
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disc 1 | Disc 2 | Disc 3 | Disc 4 | Disc 5 | Disc 6 | |
| UHMWPE GUR 1050 | 5.4 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| HXPE | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| VEXPE UHMWPE | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.1 |
