Dental implant treatment is an important medical technology that restores the function of missing teeth and enables natural chewing. A screw-shaped titanium oxide implant material is placed into the jawbone to fix an artificial tooth. This implant material must have high biocompatibility, and the hydrophilicity of the surface must be improved to facilitate cell attachment and proliferation.
Masayoshi Takahashi, a specially appointed professor at Tohoku University’s New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, and his colleagues have developed a superhydrophilic technology for dental implant materials using ozone nanobubble water.
The results were published in Langmuir on November 25, 2024.
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