Ceramics Biomedical Implants

A number of implanted ceramics have not actually been designed for specific biomedical applications.

Ceramics biomedical implants.

Medical implants are man made devices in contrast to a transplant which is a transplanted biomedical tissue the surface of implants that contact the body might be made of a biomedical material such as titanium silicone. But modern technology is full of advanced ceramics from silicon solar panels to ceramic superconductors and biomedical implants. However they manage to find their way into different implantable systems because of their properties and their good biocompatibility. Bioceramics ceramic products or components employed in medical and dental applications mainly as implants and replacements.

An implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure support a damaged biological structure or enhance an existing biological structure. Tin has been suggested as the friction surface in hip prostheses. Ceramics for biomedical applications is a relatively recent phenomenon. The inherent brittleness of ceramics has limited their competition with ductile metals and polymers.

This article briefly describes the principal ceramic materials and surveys the uses to which they are put in medical and dental applications. Among these ceramics we can cite silicon carbide titanium nitrides and carbides and boron nitride.