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Active implant surfaces shorten the healing period

Active surfaces were developed to optimise early implant stability and to increase safety during the critical healing period.

The latest active surface technologies build on the proven SLA® surface concept. This development improves implant stability in the critical early phase of treatment and makes the therapy more predictable. These so-called active surfaces open up new treatment options.

Active surfaces were developed to optimise early implant stability and are intended to increase safety during the critical healing period. Optimising the implant surface at molecular level is also expected to shorten the average healing time.

Conventional titanium surfaces are hydrophobic and repel liquids. An active implant surface is highly reactive and markedly hydrophilic. As a result it rapidly attracts blood and proteins and is intended to promote bone formation around the implant. Early bone-to-implant contact across the whole surface should be considerably increased, and healing and osseointegration accelerated.

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An active implant surface is hydrophilic, which means it attracts fluid. Conventional titanium surfaces, by contrast, are hydrophobic and repel fluids. The active surface quickly attracts blood and proteins and is thereby intended to promote the formation of bone around the implant.
Optimising the implant surface at molecular level is intended to shorten the average healing time. Contact between bone and implant is to be strengthened considerably early on and all around the surface, which should speed up healing and osseointegration, that is the firm growing-in to the bone.
The active surfaces are a further development of the proven SLA concept. They aim at the stability of the implant in the critical early treatment phase and are intended to increase safety during the healing period. This should make the treatment easier to predict.