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Clinical Studies

The evidence base behind our implants.

A growing body of clinical evidence across multiple study designs, indications, and follow-up windows. Below is the public summary; the full clinical evidence dossier is available to qualified clinical and commercial partners under NDA.

Pivotal Study

Large-cohort prospective clinical study.

The pivotal evidence supporting the Patient-Matched Skull Reconstruction System.

Patient-Matched 3D-Printed Titanium Cranial Implant — Multi-Centre Prospective Study

Design

Multi-centre, prospective, with active follow-up

Population

Patients with cranial defects from TBI, stroke, tumour, congenital deformity

Sites

50+ clinical partner sites, China

Status

Ongoing; full-cohort analysis published

Key results

  • Total complication rate < 2% (vs. 12–18% for mesh / PEEK literature controls)
  • Infection rate < 1.7% (vs. 6–8% literature controls)
  • Re-operation for critical failure: none observed
  • Implant-related serious adverse events: none observed
  • Patient-reported aesthetic and quality-of-life outcomes: consistently positive

Full study report and post-market clinical follow-up (PMCF) data available under NDA.

Clinical Partner Sites

Where the evidence is generated.

Our clinical research spans 50+ sites across China, with growing engagement in Europe and the United States.

China — Tier 1
  • Fourth Military Medical University (Xi'an)
  • Southern Medical University Affiliated Hospitals (Guangzhou)
  • Shenzhen Second People's Hospital
  • Beijing Tiantan Hospital
  • Huashan Hospital (Shanghai)
  • Xuanwu Hospital (Beijing)
Europe
  • Charité Berlin (Germany)
  • Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (Germany)
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
  • AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière (France)
  • Niguarda Hospital (Italy)
  • Vall d'Hebron (Spain)
UK & Nordics
  • Addenbrooke's, Cambridge (UK)
  • King's College Hospital (UK)
  • Queen's Square, UCL (UK)
  • Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet (Norway)
  • Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
Post-Market Clinical Follow-Up (PMCF)

The evidence doesn't stop at approval.

Under our PMCF programme, we continuously collect real-world outcomes data and feed it back into product and process improvements.

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Real-world data

Continuous outcomes tracking across the 500+ hospital clinical partner network.

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Patient-reported outcomes

Aesthetic, functional, and quality-of-life patient-reported outcomes tracked longitudinally.

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Registries

Cooperation with national and international CMF implant registries for benchmarking.

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed work from the team.

A selection of peer-reviewed publications from the Excellent MedTech team and our clinical collaborators. For the full publication list, please contact our team.

Materials

Gradient porous titanium for cranial reconstruction

Bobyn-window pore size and Klawitter-Hulbert interconnectivity thresholds in EBM-built Ti-6Al-4V ELI.

Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2024.

Clinical

Multi-centre prospective study of 3D-printed cranial implants

Total complication rate < 2% across 5,000+ patient-matched cranioplasties.

Neurosurgery, 2025.

Mechanics

FEA-based design acceptance for patient-specific cranial implants

Patient-specific FEA with peak von Mises < 440 MPa, micromotion < 50 µm, stress-shielding 0.7–1.3.

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2024.

Surface

Native TiO₂ and protein adsorption in patient-matched titanium

Ti-OH groups and Ti-O-R covalent bonds as the molecular basis for titanium biocompatibility.

Biomaterials, 2023.