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Design and Engineering Criteria for Titanium Devices

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Titanium in Medicine

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Pure titanium and titanium alloys are considered the best biocompatible metallic implant materials. This assessment, generally accepted as valid with respect to applications in medical technology, can be explained mainly by titanium’s surface properties resulting from the spontaneous building up of a stable and inert oxide layer (Chaps. 5 and 6); this leads to exceptional behavior with regard to biological safety (Part IV). However, the clinical successes of temporary or permanent implants and prostheses made of titanium used in traumatology, orthopedics and dental surgery do not rely only on favorable tissue reactions and excellent corrosion resistance but also on their functional design. Thanks to its good weight-specific strength titanium is among the most interesting of construction materials, and it is also used in non-medical applications.

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Gasser, B. (2001). Design and Engineering Criteria for Titanium Devices. In: Titanium in Medicine. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56486-4_20

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