Endotec Inc

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The origins of the company date to 1974 when Dr.’s Buechel and Pappas began their collaboration. By 1978 they had developed quite novel shoulder, knee and ankle implants using mobile bearings. The mobile bearing concept is instrumental in the design of knee and ankle prostheses using plastic on metal joint articulations which are capable of providing natural joint mobility at contact pressures that can safely be tolerated by the plastics used for replacement joints. Because of the importance of these new designs, they were all licensed to DePuy who intended to manufacture and sell them.Dr’s. Buechel and Pappas continued to refine these designs and to develop new replacement joint designs under the corporate entity Biomedical Engineering Corp. By 1982 it became clear that for several reasons DePuy would not be interested in licensing all of the devices developed by Dr’s. Buechel and Pappas. Thus they founded “Endomedics” to manufacture and sell their designs. Endotec was formed in 1988 and is solely owned by Dr’s. Buechel and Pappas.Endotec was formed and dedicated to the development, manufacture and sale of implant systems of advanced design and materials. Its particular interest is in advanced materials. By the formation of Endotec, after Dr’s. Buechel and Pappas had been involved in the design and development of improved joint replacement systems for fourteen years using those materials commonly in use for joint replacement. It became clear that additional advances required the use of new materials. Thus the development of such materials and processes for effectively using them became a focus of development efforts of Dr’s. Buechel and Pappas. In particular these efforts have been, and are, associated with reducing wear, and its effects, in replacement joints.

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