Bone Growth is Enhanced by Novel Bioceramic Coatings on Ti Alloy Implants
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 2009
Chaoyuan Wang, Kārlis-Agris Gross, Gail I. Anderson, Colin R. Dunstan, Angelo Carbone, Goerg Berger, Ute Ploska, Hala Zreiqat

Calcium phosphate ceramics are widely used as coating materials to orthopedic implants and are found to enhance initial bony ingrowth by stimulating osseous apposition to the implant surface. In this study, two novel calcium orthophosphate materials were selected for coating onto the commonly used orthopedic implant material Ti-6Al-4V. One was calcium alkali orthophosphate with the crystalline phase Ca10[K/Na](PO4)7 with a small addition of SiO2 (AW-Si) and the other was calcium orthophosphate composed of 70 mol % fluorapatite, Ca10(PO4)6F2 and 30 mol % CaZr4(PO4)6 (FA7Z). The coated implants were placed in cortical and cortico-cancellous bone of sheep femur for six weeks. Retrieved samples were tested for osseointegration and mechanical strength. It was found that both coatings produced enhanced bone/implant contact rate compared to the control when implanted in cortico-cancellous bone. This study demonstrates that the two coatings have the capability of encouraging bone growth, and hence the potential for being used as coating materials on Ti implants.


Keywords
orthopedic implants; ceramic coatings; osseointegration; fluoroapatite; orthophosphates
DOI
10.1002/jbm.a.32111

Wang, C., Gross, K., Anderson, G., Dunstan, C., Carbone, A., Berger, G., Ploska, U., Zreiqat, H. Bone Growth is Enhanced by Novel Bioceramic Coatings on Ti Alloy Implants. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 2009, Vol.90A, No.2, pp.419-428. ISSN 1552-4965. Available from: doi:10.1002/jbm.a.32111

Publication language
English (en)
The Scientific Library of the Riga Technical University.
E-mail: uzzinas@rtu.lv; Phone: +371 28399196