RESEARCH ARTICLE
No Positive Effect of Acid Etching or Plasma Cleaning on Osseointegration of Titanium Implants in a Canine Femoral Condyle Press-Fit Model
H Saksø*, T Jakobsen, M Saksø, J Baas, SS Jakobsen, K Soballe
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2013Volume: 7
First Page: 1
Last Page: 7
Publisher ID: TOORTHJ-7-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874325001307010001
Article History:
Received Date: 7/7/2012Revision Received Date: 2/11/2012
Acceptance Date: 7/11/2012
Electronic publication date: 9/1/2013
Collection year: 2013
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/) which permits unrestrictive use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Purpose:
Implant surface treatments that improve early osseointegration may prove useful in long-term survival of uncemented implants. We investigated Acid Etching and Plasma Cleaning on titanium implants.
Methods:
In a randomized, paired animal study, four porous coated Ti implants were inserted into the femurs of each of ten dogs.
- PC (Porous Coating; control)
- PC+PSHA (Plasma Sprayed Hydroxyapatite; positive control)
- PC+ET (Acid Etch)
- PC+ET+PLCN (Plasma Cleaning)
After four weeks mechanical fixation was evaluated by push-out test and osseointegration by histomorphometry.
Results:
The PSHA-coated implants were better osseointegrated than the three other groups on outer surface implant porosity (p<0.05) while there was no statistical difference in deep surface implant porosity when compared with nontreated implant. Within the deep surface implant porosity, there was more newly formed bone in the control group compared to the ET and ET+PCLN groups (p<0.05). In all compared groups, there was no statistical difference in any biomechanical parameter.
Conclusions:
In terms of osseointegration on outer surface implant porosity PC+PSHA was superior to the other three groups. Neither the acid etching nor the plasma cleaning offered any advantage in terms of implant osseointegration. There was no statistical difference in any of the biomechanical parameters among all groups in the press-fit model at 4 weeks of evaluation time.
