Method for fixing an implant, fixing member for the implant and implant composite

Method for fixing an implant, fixing member for the implant and implant composite
United States Patent Application 20050079469
Kind Code A1
Publication Date: April 14, 2005
Inventors: Akagawa, Yasumasa; (Hiroshima, JP) ; Kubo, Takayasu; (Hiroshima, JP) ; Doi, Kazuya; (Hiroshima, JP)
Correspondence Name and Address: FOLEY AND LARDNER
SUITE 500
3000 K STREET NW
WASHINGTON
DC
20007
US
Assignee Name and Adress: Yasumasa AKAGAWA
TOSHIBA CERAMICS CO., LTD.
MMT Co., Ltd.
Serial No.: 920442
Series Code: 10
Filed: August 18, 2004
Abstract
A fixing member for an implant which comprises a tube or a pillar made of an hydroxyapatite ceramics at least one part of which is a ceramics porous article consisting essentially of a hydroxyapatite formed by agitation foaming, in which a number of approximately spherical pores mutually contact having pore structures communicated three-dimensionally opened at the contact area and having an averaged porosity of from 65% to 85%. A method for fixing an implant comprising a step of inserting an implant whose at least one part of the periphery is integrated with a hydroxyapatite ceramics into an implant insertion site of an alveolar bone or a gnathic bone. A method for fixing an implant, a fixing member for the implant and an implant composite in order to reinforce an implant insertion site by compensating or regenerating an alveolar bone or a gnathic bone on an implant treatment in dentistry or in oral surgery is obtained.