Introduction Titanium and its alloys have excellent mechanical properties and biocompatibility. In the field of dentistry, smooth surfaced titanium implants inserted into the facial bones perform very well. After implantation, well-fixed dental implants, which are not subjected to weight loading during some period after implantation, exhibit direct contact with bone without intervening fibrous ...

Osseointegration of a dental implant is a primary measure of its long term success. Direct bone-toimplant contact is desired for a biomechanical anchoring of implants to bone rather than fibrous tissue encapsulation. Surface characteristics of implants such as surface treatment and thread designs play a determinant role in these biological interactions. Nanotechnologies are increasingly used fo...

Many dental implants fail due to the infection and inflammation that walk hand in hand with poor healing and soft tissue integration. Titanium surfaces were nanocoated with quercitrin, a natural flavonoid, with the aim to improve soft tissue integration and increase dental implants success. Streptococcus mutans attachment and biofilm formation was analysed. Then, the anti-inflammatory propertie...

Osseointegration has been defined as “a direct structural and functional connection between ordered, living bone and the surface of a load-carrying implant”. However, titanium and its alloys cannot directly bond to living bone after being implanted into the body. The osseointegration of titanium dental implants is critically dependent on the implant surface properties. Various surface modificat...

One of the most common causes of implant failure is peri-implantitis, which is caused by bacterial biofilm formation on the surfaces of dental implants. Modification of the surface nanotopography has been suggested to affect bacterial adherence to implants. Silver nanoparticles are also known for their antibacterial properties. In this study, titanium alloy implants were surface modified follow...

Commercially pure titanium implants presenting a relatively smooth, machined surface or a roughened endosseous surface show a large percentage of clinical success. Surface properties of dental implants seem to affect bone cells response. Implant topography appears to modulate cell growth and differentiation of osteoblasts affecting the bone healing around the titanium implant. The aim of the pr...

Advanced surface modifications and materials were tested on the same implant geometry. Six types of dental implants were tested for osseointegration after 2, 4 and 8 weeks in a sheep pelvis model. Four titanium implant types were treated with newly developed surface modifications, of which two were chemically and two were pharmacologically modified. One implant was made of zirconia. A sandblast...