An improved process for the fabrication and surface treatment of custom-made titanium cranioplasty implants informed by surface analysis
Cardona, Milovan Joe and Turner, Catherine and Ross, Calum and Baird, Elaine and Black, Richard Anthony (2021) An improved process for the fabrication and surface treatment of custom-made titanium cranioplasty implants informed by surface analysis. Journal of Biomaterials Applications, 35 (6). pp. 602-614. ISSN 0885-3282 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0885328220957899)
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Abstract
Cranioplasty implants are routinely fabricated from commercially pure titanium plates by maxillofacial prosthetists. The differing fabrication protocols adopted by prosthetists working at different hospital sites gives rise to considerable variations in surface topography and composition of cranioplasty implants, with residues from the fabrication processes having been found to become incorporated into the surface of the implant. There is a growing recognition among maxillofacial prosthetists of the need to standardise these protocols to ensure quality and consistency of practice within the profession. In an effort to identify and eliminate the source of the inclusions associated with one such fabrication protocol, the present study examined the surfaces of samples subjected to each of the manufacturing steps involved. Surface and elemental analysis techniques identified the main constituent of the surface inclusions to be silicon from the glass beads used to texture the surface of the implant during fabrication. Subsequent analysis of samples prepared according to a revised protocol resulted in a more homogeneous titanium dioxide surface as evidenced by the reduction in area occupied by surface inclusions (from 8.51% ± 2.60% to 0.93% ± 0.62%). These findings may inform the development of improved protocols for the fabrication of titanium cranioplasty plates.
ORCID iDs
Cardona, Milovan Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0967-1957, Turner, Catherine, Ross, Calum, Baird, Elaine and Black, Richard Anthony;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 73653 Dates: DateEvent31 January 2021Published11 September 2020Published Online19 August 2020Accepted22 May 2020SubmittedSubjects: Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > Bioengineering Department: Faculty of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 Aug 2020 09:46 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 12:41 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/73653