In Vivo Response of Laser Processed Porous Titanium Implants for Load-Bearing Implants

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• 作者：Amit Bandyopadhyay ; Anish Shivaram ; Solaiman Tarafder…
• 关键词：Additive manufacturing ; LENS™Porous Ti ; TiO2 Nanotubes ; Osseointegration
• 刊名：Annals of Biomedical Engineering
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：45
• 期：1
• 页码：249-260
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Biomedicine, general; Biomedical Engineering; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics; Classical Mechanics; Biochemistry, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-9686
• 卷排序：45

文摘

Applications of porous metallic implants to enhance osseointegration of load-bearing implants are increasing. In this work, porous titanium implants, with 25 vol.% porosity, were manufactured using Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS™) to measure the influence of porosity towards bone tissue integration in vivo. Surfaces of the LENS™ processed porous Ti implants were further modified with TiO₂ nanotubes to improve cytocompatibility of these implants. We hypothesized that interconnected porosity created via additive manufacturing will enhance bone tissue integration in vivo. To test our hypothesis, in vivo experiments using a distal femur model of male Sprague–Dawley rats were performed for a period of 4 and 10 weeks. In vivo samples were characterized via micro-computed tomography (CT), histological imaging, scanning electron microscopy, and mechanical push-out tests. Our results indicate that porosity played an important role to establish early stage osseointegration forming strong interfacial bonding between the porous implants and the surrounding tissue, with or without surface modification, compared to dense Ti implants used as a control.