Background and Aim: Implant site preparation with minimal trauma is an important factor in success of implant treatment and has a great effect on osseointegration. Piezoelectric bone surgery was introduced as a modern technique for micrometric osteotomy with precise, controllable action. Preservation of osteoblast cell viability is critical to achieve successful osseointegration. The present st...

Roughened surfaces are increasingly being used for dental implant applications as the enlarged contact area improves bone cell anchorage, thereby facilitating osseointegration. However, the additional surface area also entails a higher risk for the development of biofilm associated infections, an etiologic factor for many dental ailments, including peri-implantitis. To overcome this problem, we...

Background: Osseointegrated titanium implants are routinely used in clinical denstistry as anchorage units for dental prostheses. Although the overall clinical results are good, there are clinical situations when an optimized implant healing is desirable, for instance in order to shorten healing periods and to allow immediate loading. Aims: The present work was undertaken to study the influence...

Ten uncemented total hip replacements were performed in 1975 using an implant in which the cobalt-chrome femoral stem was coated to give a porous surface. In all but one case a high-density polyethylene head was used. The radiological changes in the upper femoral shafts were assessed between three and nine years later. Seven showed extensive stress-relieving changes, loss of calcar, stress frac...

Insufficient bone volume is one of the major challenges encountered by dentists after dental implant placement. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a customized three-dimensional polycaprolactone (3D PCL) scaffold implant fabricated with a 3D bio-printing system to facilitate rapid alveolar bone regeneration. Saddle-type bone defects were surgically created on the healed site after ext...

In this work computational models are developed to analyze bone remodeling of the humerus after a shoulder arthroplasty using either a cemented or press-fit stem. Bone is modelled as a porous material, characterized by its local density. The bone remodelling model is based on a global optimization criterion by the minimization of a function which takes into account both structural stiffness and...

s / 87 (2003) 199–308 299 interest. When injured, bone does not heal with a fibrous scar, as do virtually all other tissues. An attractive method of bone repair is to culture bone cells on polymer scaffolds in vitro and subsequently implant these artificial hybrid materials [2]. Interesting polymers for these scaffolds are PEOT/PBT block copolymers. The composition with 70 wt% PEO soft segment ...

Several bisphosphonates are now available for the treatment of osteoporosis. Porous hydroxyapatite/collagen (HA/Col) composite is an osteoconductive bone substitute which is resorbed by osteoclasts. The effects of the bisphosphonate alendronate on the formation of bone in porous HA/Col and its resorption by osteoclasts were evaluated using a rabbit model. Porous HA/Col cylinders measuring 6 mm ...