When dealing with medical problems, the medical device should not add to these problems. Medical device manufacturing requires the highest quality—and industry takes no chances with this. Regulations are de rigueur. The need for quality of a bone screw should be obvious, and the same goes for any medical device.
While medical devices in years past may have meant items like stethoscopes or blood pressure cuffs—and these haven’t gone away—a number of innovations in the medical industry such as stents and pacemakers require extremely high levels of quality.