Information on 3D Printed Calcium Phosphate/Hydroxyapatite implants

[Deleted member 20631]

Why aren’t these types of implants more common? Is it simply an issue of price?

Both implants are permanent and because of their porous nature allow bone growth into the implant so over time the implant will become partially bone.

An implant like this would mog traditional implants in areas like jaw mass, gonial angle augmentation and underye and zygo projection

 

[unlucko]

issue of recency

 

[unlucko]

Surgical pitfalls with custom-made porous hydroxyapatite cranial implants

Aim: Cranioplasty implants are used primarily in cases of surgical cranial decompression following pathological elevations of intracranial pressure. Available bone substitutes include porous hydroxyapatite (HA) and polymethylmethacrylate. Whichever material is used, however, prosthetic cranial...

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not ready for widespread adoption

 

[Deleted member 20631]

Surgical pitfalls with custom-made porous hydroxyapatite cranial implants

Aim: Cranioplasty implants are used primarily in cases of surgical cranial decompression following pathological elevations of intracranial pressure. Available bone substitutes include porous hydroxyapatite (HA) and polymethylmethacrylate. Whichever material is used, however, prosthetic cranial...

parjournal.net

not ready for widespread adoption

Is there cases of HA implants being used for facial augmentation?

 

[Tallooksmaxxer]

i think @RealSurgerymax said its not that good.

 

[Deleted member 20631]

i think @RealSurgerymax said its not that good.

Yeah it seems to be bad for areas that require sharp angles, seems good for possible midface/browridge augmentation

 

[Tallooksmaxxer]

Yeah it seems to be bad for areas that require sharp angles, seems good for possible midface/browridge augmentation

yeah. its just a paste used for osteotomies. not an implant material itself.

its used by eppley for forehead augmention too.

Rigid Hydroxyapatite bone like facial implants are finally upon us, courtesy of Italian biotech company Finceramica

https://www.finceramica.it/en/prodotti_servizi/neurochirurgia/customizedbone

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