“…However, the latest clinical data do not reflect the desired positive effects [3][4][5][6] with revision rates of up to 86 % for a doubletapered modular hip prosthesis after a follow-up time of less than five years [4]. In recent years concerns have arisen regarding fretting [7,8], wear [9,10] and corrosion at modular taper junctions [8,9,[11][12][13][14][15] further increasing the number of revision surgeries [5,8,9,12,16]. The resulting postoperative complications include, but are not limited to, pain [7,13,17], soft tissue damage [7,11], the formation of pseudotumours [7,15,18,19] and osteolysis [20,21] and are frequently associated with high metal ion levels in the blood and/ or urine [15,[22][23][24].…”