Osseoinductive metal implants for a living body and producing method thereof
AssigneeKorea Institute of Machinery & Materials
InventorsEung-Sun Byon, Yong-Soo Jeong, Jong-Kuk Kim, Young-Taeg Sul, Beom-Seok Chang, Lee-Ra Cho
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Abstract
This invention provides an Osseo-inductive metal implant for a living body and the producing method thereof and, more particularly, the Osseo-inductive metal implant for a living body according to the present invention is produced by forming, on the surface of the metal implant, the layer of metal oxide and the layer of bio-active material injected.
Claims24
An Osseo-inductive metal implant for a living body comprising a layer of metal oxide and a layer of bio-active material formed in this order on the surface of the metal implant.
A method of producing Osseo-inductive metal implants for a living body comprising the following steps:
- (1) forming a layer of metal oxide on the surface of mechanically processed metal implant;
- (2) plasma-cleaning the surface of the layer of metal oxide formed in step (1);
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- (3) forming a layer of bio-active material by implanting the ionized bio-active material into the surface of said layer of metal oxide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.