week 5 Flashcards
Ceramic definition
inorganic/non-metallic compositions.
few ceramic compositions have achieved clinical success:
Example of implantable inert bioceramics:
Al2O3, ZrO2,( clinical success) TiO2.
Ceramics are (treatment response)
refractory (resistant to treatment) polycrystalline compounds
Ceramics properties
- Usually inorganic
- Highly inert
- Hard and brittle
- High compressive strength
- Generally good electric and thermal insulators
- Good aesthetic appearance
- Good tribological properties (wear, friction)
Tissue composition
Tissue = organic polymer fibers + mineral + living cells
ceramic classification based on crystallinity
Type of bond
- amorphous ceramics that are generally referred to as ‘glasses’
- Crystalline ceramics, which may be single phase materials like alumina
- Semi-Crystalline:
Ionic bonds
Mineral component (ceramic) bone:
- hydroxyapatite (HA); Ca5(PO4)3OH
- Mineralization under biological conditions: - many elemental substitutions
- protein directed crystallization
- unique characteristics: crystal morphology and solubility
Types of bioceramics (3):
- Bioinert: Alumina (Al2O3), Zirconia (ZrO3), Pyrolytic carbon.
- Bioactive: Bioglass (Na2OCaOP2O3-SiO), Hydroxyapatite (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) (sintered at high temperature)
- Resrobable or biodegradable: Hydroxyapatite (sintered at low temperature) Tricalcium phosphate.
Biocompatibility vs bioactivity vs biodegradability:
- Biocompatibility: Minimize inflammatory responses and toxic effects. (eg. head of articulations)
- Bioactivity: Characteristic that allows the material to form a bond with living tissue (Hench 1971).
- Ability of a material to stimulate healing and trick the tissue system into responding as if it were a natural tissue (Hench 2002).
- Advantages: bone-tissue-implant interface, enhanced healing* response, *extended implant life.
- Biodegradability: Breakdown of implant due to chemical or cellular actions, enzymes.
- If timed to rate of tissue healing transforms implant to scaffold for tissue regeneration.
- Mitigates issues of **stress shielding, implant loosening, long term stability. (eg. Low bearing appliacations) **
Types of bioceramics (4)
- Type 1: bioinert == Fully dense and inert: zirconia/alumina
- Type 2: porous inert == Porous/inert: porous alumina/zirconia
- Type 3: surface reactive == Fully dense and bioactive: hydroxyapatite
- Type 4: resorbable materials == Porous/bioactive/resorbable: scaffolds for tissue engineering
Are there materials implanted in the body tha are completely inert?
no type of material implanted in the body is completely inert because **they will elicit a response from living tissues. **
The success of ceramic/bioglass-based implantation depends on:
- Achieving a stable attachment to connective tissue when used as a bulk implant.
- Stimulating repair and regeneration of bone when used as particulates for bone grafting.
Types of implant-Tissue Response
1) If the material is toxic, the surrounding tissue dies.
2) If the material is nontoxic and biologically inactive (nearly inert), a fibrous tissue of variable thickness forms.
3) If the material is nontoxic and biologically active (bioactive), an interfacial bond forrns.
4) If the material is nontoxic and dissolves, the **surrounding tissue replaces it. **
Types of bioceramics Tissue attachments
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Dense, nonporous nearly inert cerarnics attach by bone growth into surface irregularities by cementing the device into the tissues. or by press-fitting into a defect. flermed Morphoiogicai Fiation)
- AI2O3, (Single Ctystal and Polycrystalline)
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For porous inert implants bone ingrowth occurs, which mechanicaliy attaches the bone to the material. (termed Biological Fixation)
- Al203 (Porous Polycrystalline) Hydroxylapatilecoated Porous Metals
- _Dense, nonporous surface-reactive cerarnics, glasses, and glass-cerarnics _attach directly by chemical bonding with the bone. (Termed Bioactive Fixation)
- Bioactive glasses Bioactive glass-cerarnics Hydroxylapatite
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Dense, nonporous (or porous) resorbable cerarnics are designed to be slowly replace by bone.
- Calciurn Sulphate (Plaster of Paris) TricalciurnPhosphate Calciurn-Phosphate Salts
Ceramic Type 1: Bioinert
Describe means of attachment.
- Interface is not chemically or biologically bonded.
- o Relative movement. –> **deformation due to fibrous layer formation that reduces flexibility. –> modular and encapsulation **
- o Progressive development of** fibrous capsule in soft and hard tissues **