in both conditions
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In both conditions, it is principally related to the cellular growth and shear/load
bearing.
In the case of titanium and Ti-alloy, as it is biocompatable (i.e. it is inert to body
fluid and allows bone on-growth) it offers a good platform for the bone tissue to
attach to the metal (due primarily to its high dielectric constant).
The topography process does two things,
a) it enhances the surface energy of the titanium by developing a larger surface
area, which results in increased van der waals interactions at the interface.
This has been linked to improved cell on-growth and proliferation.
b) Secondly, topography also offers a shear/load support platform to translate
the load to the tissue. Increased load translation has been linked to increase
tissue activity, and reinforcement of structure around the material interface.
In the case of coatings, these are generally deposited to control the level of on-
growth and sometimes to offer a platform for cellular in-growth (like plasma
deposited Ti beading). Considering the former, by changing the composition of
the coating, the bone progression front can be augmented to move slowly (HA) or
quickly (TCP, TTCP).
The science world is a little divided on which method is best, to get early fixation
(fast) or quality fixation (slow), hence the reality is the bio-medical/bio-
ceramics/bio-engineering world have moved on and are beginning to use
coatings of many compositions (both stable and unstable), and doping/soaking
these coatings with medicine, proteins or growth factors. The reason for the
effectiveness of the coatings, is the dissolution of the coating while, body
resulting in the release of favorable ions to induce/entice cellular actively bone
tissue growth. The ions release rate is depend on the level of crystalline and
amorphous material, and will directly affect the rate of bone growth.
Overall, if the material is doped/soaked, the doping agent is released with
dissolution of the receding coatings, and will only affect the localized area.