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| Author(s): |
Tamiye Simone Goia
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2008-11-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Helena de Almeida Bressiani;
Eliana Cristina da Silva Rigo;
Marcelo Yoshimoto
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| Advisor: | Ana Helena de Almeida Bressiani |
| Abstract | |
Studies of titanium and its alloys commonly used as biomaterials, aim to improve bone-implant interface related problems which may determine the quality, the bone repairing time and therefore the clinical success of the implant. The goal of this study was to evaluate, in rats, osteointegration of macroporous implants produced by powder metallurgy (PM) method, with controlled addition of gelatin. Were used as control group, samples of commercially pure titanium (cpTi) and samples of the Ti-13Nb-13Zr alloy obtained by the PM process, sintered at 1150ºC / 14 hours (10-5 mBar). To obtaining the porous samples, at most 15% in weight of gelatin was added to metallic powders (Ti, Nb and Zr), the samples were thermally treated in vacuum oven (10-2 mBar) at 300°C / 90 min, and sintered. Physical characterization of metallic powders, sintered alloy and porous samples were made. The biological characterization began by in vitro cytotoxicity essay according with norm ISO-10993-5 (1993), which allowed uses the implants for in vivo testing. The osteointegration evaluation was performed in Wistar rats, males, for 28 days period. The morphological analyses, optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), evaluated qualitatively the osteointegration. Concluding, the unpublished new methodology of PM process modified by addition of gelatin, propitiate with success the obtaining of porous metallic implants. The gelatin as a collagen did not interfered in the final non-cytotoxic implant characteristic. Porous size obtained by this technique allowed the nourishing and necessary maintenance to cell survival, proving that the pores and channels formed a high interconnectable network showing thus the osteointegration and osteoconduction feature of the porous alloy. (AU) | |