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CellWell record HH-487814

Biodegradable Magnesium-Based Implants in Sports Orthopedic Surgery: Advances in Alloy Design, Surface Engineering, and Translational Evidence

Georgi Raykov; Jakob Adolf; Benedikt Hochbein; Georgi Enev; Dimitar Tenev; Michail Dimitrov; Dimitar Raykov; Nikolay Dimitrov

2026

In plain language

This narrative review of magnesium implants in sports orthopedics finds no human trials yet of magnesium devices for soft-tissue repair, while fracture fixation data from over 468 patients show complication rates similar to titanium.

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