The healthcare sector is a growing market worldwide. As life expectancy rises, so does the need for services to maintain quality of life, from dental prostheses to hip, knee, shoulder and spinal column prostheses. Heraeus already supplies a host of products in these fields. The patient in the dentist’s chair encounters a wide variety of dental products, such as casting and filling materials, precious metal alloys, veneering composites and implants. When it comes to anchoring a hip prosthesis securely to the bone, the Heraeus bone cement Palacos® has set the standard in Europe and the United States for almost 50 years. Most modern pacemakers contain parts from Heraeus, such as millimeter-fine stimulation electrodes and specialty guide wires. These products are used primarily in cardiology, cardiac rhythm management and minimally invasive surgery. Infrared emitters play a role in the processing of medical technology products.
