MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING A SURFACE AT LEAST PARTIALLY COATED WITH A REFLECTOR COATING

摘要

The present invention relates to a medical device (1) selected from the group of dental implants, orthodontic appliances, crowns, bridges and abutments for use in the dental area made of titanium, zirconium, niobium, hafnium, tantalum, vanadium, aluminum, steel or alloys thereof. The surface (6) of said medical device is at least partially coated with a reflector coating (10). The reflector coating (10) comprises a plurality of repeat units (15), and each repeat unit (15) consisting of two layers (16, 17) of a Bragg reflector pair selected from the group of TiO2/SiO2, ZrO2/SiO2, A1N/A12O3, SixNy/SiO2, wherein x is from 1 to 4 and y is from 1 to 8, and Si/SiO2.