Letters to the Editor

✍ Scribed by Thomas, Kevin A. ;Cook, Stephen D.

• Book ID: 102291649
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 120 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9304
• DOI: 10.1002/jbm.820260612

✦ Synopsis

Recently, Buser et al. reported

in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research on their investigation concerning the relationship between surface characteristics and the degree of bone-implant integration.' Specifically, they reported on a histomorphometric study of hollow-cylinder commercially pure (cp) titanium implants press-fit into the femoral and tibia1 metaphyses of miniature swine for periods of 3 and 6 weeks. In approximately the order of increasing surface roughness the implant treatments included: electropolishing; medium (0.12-0.15 pm) particle grit-blasting and acid-pickling with large (0.25-0.50 pm) particle grit-blasting; large particle grit blasting and acid attack with HC1/H,S04; plasma-spraying with titanium; and plasma-spraying with hydroxyl-LETTERS TO THE EDITOR review of the published literature, they have not related their findings to the documented work of other investigators.