Special Issue on Enhancement of Titanium Dental Implant/Abutment Surfaces

Titanium dental implant surfaces

Osseointegration has been defined as “a direct structural and functional connection between ordered, living bone and the surface of a load-carrying implant”. However, titanium and its alloys cannot directly bond to living bone after being implanted into the body. The osseointegration of titanium dental implants is critically dependent on the implant surface properties. Various surface modificat...

Special issue on constrained design of curves and surfaces

It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to act as guest editors for this special issue on Constrained Design of Curves and Surfaces (CDCS). We would like to thank the editors of JCAD for supporting our view that generating, analyzing and modifying shapes is a process usually driven by a variety of constraints, whose methodological, algorithmic and computational handling deserves to obtain autonomy...

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Bio-Functionalization of Titanium Surfaces for Dental Implants

Since dental implants are used in contact with many different tissues, it is necessary to have optimum surface compatibility with the host bone tissues and soft tissues. Furthermore, dental implant surfaces exposed to the oral cavity must remain plaque-free. Such materials can be created under well-controlled conditions by modifying the surfaces of metals that contact those tissues. “Tissue-com...

Characterization of titanium surfaces for dental implants with inorganic contaminant.

The aim of this research was to characterize titanium surfaces blasted with aluminum oxide (Al2O3) particles using the KS 400 digital image processing program. Samples of grade II titanium plates were submitted to blasting processes using particles of Al2O3, and treated with a hydrofluoric acid-based solution. Three digital images from each sample surface were obtained using Scanning Electron M...