Infections related to dental implants are a common complication that can ultimately lead to implant failure, and thereby carries significant health and economic costs. In order to ward off these infections, this paper ...

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings have been extensively studied over the last two decades in the field of materials engineering. The addition of effective bactericidal agents like silver suggests the potential application ...

The performance and properties of Titanium (Ti) and its alloys can be fully exploited for biomedical applications such as orthopedic and dental implants, when porous structures are used. Such Ti structures can matched the ...

The passivation of titanium dental implants is performed in order to clean the surface and obtain a thin layer of protective oxide (TiO2) on the surface of the material in order to improve its behavior against corrosion ...

HVOF thermal sprayed WC cermet coatings exhibit excellent abrasive and erosive wear resistance due to the presence of high volume fraction of WC particles bounded by a tough cobalt or cobalt-chromium alloy binder. However, ...

Material engineering has always played a defining role in industry by improving materials and tribological properties, increasing lite­ time use and thus ultimately reducing material costs. Over the last two decades, ...

Digital dentistry and new techniques for the dental protheses’ suprastructure fabrication have undergone a great evolution in recent years, revolutionizing the quality of dental prostheses. The aim of this work is to ...

Although ceramic-on-ceramic (CoC) bearings have been shown to produce the smallest amount of wear volume in vitro as well as in vivo studies when used for total hip arthroplasties (THA), concerns about the failure of these ...

High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) spray techniques can produce high performance alloy and cermet coatings for applications that require wear resistant surfaces. In HVOF spraying heat is produced by burning mixtures of oxygen ...