Engineering of Dental Titanium Implants and Their Coating Techniques

Abstract

Coating can improve dental implant success rate in medically compromised patients, as it allows sustained delivery of medicaments and regenerative molecules to the implant site on a biomimetic matrix. There are many dimensions in which this technology can enhance implant treatments, with respect to improved blood clotting and bone formation via amplifying favorable properties-such as wettability, surface roughness, and biomimicry. Understanding the process of osseointegration will drive further research in the subject of bioengineering titanium implants with functionalized coats. Coating techniques are variable among materials, mainly between organic and inorganic coats. The techniques are dependent on material properties and the integration of a variety of substrates. This chapter aims to describe physical and organic substrates, their individual coating mechanisms, and coating mechanisms that integrate a spectrum of biomaterials. This chapter also discusses, compares, and presents the additive coating techniques in dental titanium implants, their applications, and their rationale, as well as identifies the prospective trends.