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US 8,920,869 B2Granted
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.
Claims7
A method of producing a metal implant for a living body, the method comprising:
- mechanically processing a titanium alloy to form a metal implant substrate;
- forming a titanium oxide layer on a surface of the processed metal implant substrate with a thickness of 3 nm to 20 nm;
- cleaning a surface of the titanium oxide layer on the metal implant substrate in an alkali degreasing solution;
- cleaning the titanium oxide layer of the metal implant substrate in a plasma atmosphere;
- ionizing a bio-active material selected from a group of consisting of Li, Na, Mg and Ca;
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- implanting the ionized bio-active material on the surface of the plasma cleaned titanium oxide layer of the metal implant substrate,
- wherein the ionized bio-active material is implanted on the surface of the plasma cleaned titanium oxide layer with 40 KeV of ion energy,
- wherein the ionized bio-active material is implanted while maintaining a temperature of the plasma cleaned titanium oxide layer at 25° C., and
- wherein the ionized bio-active material is implanted to form a bio-active material layer having a thickness of 0.1 μm.
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