Design and production of ceramics implants using virtual environment

摘要

Custom-made design on hard-tissue implants are required by the market. However, appropriate design for custom-made production needs preliminary operation, which is not easily accepted. In addition to this design issue, material issue of implants is also under discussion. Porous ceramics are regarded as a suitable material for hard tissue implants, because they are compatible with bone and hard-tissue goes into the pore, which makes the bone formation with ceramics in the end. But their fragile features are not suitable for mechanical processing to create the complicated shape to fit the damaged portion of bone. We propose a new solution to these two issues, using a virtual environment for design and production on ceramics implants. The paper presents the overview of the idea behind the approach and describes some of the key technologies in our study.