Surfaces
Implant surface technologies: what each named surface is, how it is produced, and what the evidence does and does not show.
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- Anodised surface An implant surface produced by anodic oxidation, an electrochemical process that thickens and restructures the titanium dioxide layer already present on the fixture rather than cutting into the metal.
- Laser-Lok BioHorizons’ laser-ablated band of regularly spaced microchannels applied to the collar of implants and to abutment surfaces, intended to organise soft-tissue and crestal bone attachment.
- Neodent Acqua Neodent’s hydrophilic implant surface, described by the manufacturer as the next stage of its sandblasted and acid-etched NeoPoros surface.
- OsseoSpeed Dentsply Sirona’s fluoride-modified, grit-blasted titanium implant surface, used on the Astra Tech, PrimeTaper and OmniTaper implant systems.
- Osstem CA surface Osstem’s hydrophilic implant surface: the same sandblasted and acid-etched topography as its SA surface, stored in calcium chloride solution so that the surface stays wettable until placement.
- Promote CAMLOG’s blasted and acid-etched implant surface, offered in two variants that differ in how much of the implant neck is left machined rather than roughened.
- Sandblasted, large-grit, acid-etched surface A family of implant surfaces produced by blasting the titanium with a coarse abrasive to create a macro-roughness, then etching it in acid so that a finer micro-roughness is superimposed on top.
- Straumann SLA Straumann’s sandblasted, large-grit, acid-etched titanium implant surface, offered on Straumann implants alongside the later chemically modified SLActive surface.
- Straumann SLActive Straumann’s hydrophilic implant surface: the same blasted and acid-etched topography as its SLA surface, with an altered surface chemistry intended to make it wettable and chemically active.
- TiPurePlus BEGO’s sandblasted and etched implant surface, applied to grade 4 commercially pure titanium and presented by the manufacturer on the basis of the absence of detectable blasting and etching residues.
- TiUltra Nobel Biocare’s multi-zone anodised implant surface, in which the roughness changes gradually along the fixture from a minimally rough collar to a moderately rough apex.
- TiUnite Nobel Biocare’s anodised titanium implant surface, introduced around 2000 and described by the manufacturer as moderately rough.
- XPEED MegaGen’s calcium-incorporated implant surface, produced by hydrothermally treating a sandblasted and acid-etched titanium surface in a calcium solution so that a nanostructured calcium titanate layer forms.
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