Technology
Overview
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Titanized synthetics in modern medicine
Titanium and
synthetics, materials with a variety of properties and
suitable for diverse applications, have been
used in implant medicine for many years and have become an indispensable part of
modern surgery.
Titanium: The use of implants made of titanium (e.g. traumatology, endoprosthetics) is a success story, since the material shows excellent acceptance in the human body. There are disadvantages, however: stiffness and rigidity.
Synthetics:
Although raw materials are selected with best care and synthetic implants are manufactured painstakingly, there is always
a risk that the human body shows foreign body reactions towards the synthetic material.
By applying its
patented nanotechnology, GfE Medizintechnik GmbH pioneered in
combining both outstanding properties: Optimal biocompatibility and
a high level of flexibility, thus creating a revolutionary new compound
material: Titanized Synthetic.
At a first glance it seems that the titanized synthetic material does not differ from the synthetic source material, due to the covalent-bonded titanized surface (thickness: approx. 30 nm). This surface is a titanium-coated layer forming a compound material with the synthetic and at the same time maintains the flexibility of the synthetic material underneath. The covalent bonding can only be separated by destroying the synthetic structure itself. It is this extremely thin "nano-layer", however, that ensures the outstanding biocompatibility of a pure titanium implant; there are no foreign body reactions. Possible problems such as tearing, degradation, dissolution etc. have not been observed and are not to be expected.
