Implants for bones, joints or tooth roots
AssigneeSumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
InventorsMasaya Aoyagi, Mikio Hayashi, Yasuyuki Yoshida, Yoshiaki Yao
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Abstract
Implants for bones, joints or tooth roots having sufficient mechanical strength, excellent compatibility with living tissues and other advantageous properties can be obtained by thermally spraying a mixture of ceramics and hydroxyapatite onto a shaped core which is made of ceramics, thereby forming a coating layer of the mixture around the surface of the core.
Claims4
An implant comprising a shaped ceramic core having a uniform coating of a porous layer formed by plasma spraying onto the core a mixture consisting essentially of a ceramic material and hydroxyapatite, wherein said hydroxyapatite is present in an amount of 10 to 90% by weight.
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