摘要 |
The invention has strength characteristics similar to human bone and ensures adequate bonding to bone even while avoiding the occurrence of stress shielding. It is obtained from a porous metal body having a three dimensional reticulated structure with multiple communicating pores (3) formed by a continuous backbone (2). The porosity is 50% TO 92%. Each pore (3) is formed in a flat shape that is long in a direction parallel to the surface and short in the direction orthogonal to the surface and is formed so that the length Y of the pore (3) in a direction parallel to the surface is 1.2 times to 5 times the length X in the direction orthogonal to the surface. The strength when compressed in a direction parallel to the surface is 1.4 times to 5 times the strength when compressed in a direction orthogonal to the surface.
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