OPEN-PORE BIOCOMPATIBLE SURFACE LAYER FOR IMPLANT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND USE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dynamically and stably fix an implant to a bone.

SOLUTION: An open-pore biocompatible surface layer for the implant is arranged over a virgin surface of the implant. Pores of the open-pore surface layer are connected to form a coherent pore network, and the surface layer has an internal surface area of 0.06 μm/μm2or more, preferably 0.035 μm/μm2or more, especially 0.025 μm/μm2or more measured by an image analysis as a 2D-boundary line per unit of surface area in a metallographic microsection at 100 times magnification. A method for producing such a surface layer, an implant coated with the surface layer, and possible uses of the surface layer are further provided.

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