Pitt Easy Dental Implant with Puretex Surface: How is this Different than Past Implant Surfaces?
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Subscribe to this PostDr. D asks:
Sybron has recently launched the Pitt Easy Dental Implant with a Puretex surface. This is supposed to represent the next step in the evolution of implant surface treatment and consists of a ‘nanostructured pure titanium surface’ that acts as a powerful stimulus of osteogenesis and bone apposition. Has anyone used this same and how different is it from the previous V-TPS (Vaccum Titanium Plasma Spray) surface?
I used both, but clinically was no difference. Both works. Surfaces are mostly marketing. There are a many expensive surfaces without significant clinical effect. But belief heals, it’s also important. (that topic will be very active i think)
From a lab stand point any thing we should know in ref to abutments?
nothing changed
Thanks for the quick response!
Well not every thing is a marketing gimmick. It takes quite a bit to change designs and surfaces. And you have unsold stock of the previous design or surface. Every alteration by a company is generally aimed at a betterment.
By the way I have even seen how a Sybron implant looks like. Infact I just recently found out that they manufacture implants.
The surface is nothing special if it was it would have made news years ago. The prosthetics are not compatible with any other system and Sydron’s “new” implant is made in Korea. They buy it super cheap and try to sell it as “made in USA”.
you cann’t compare between puretex & vtps cllinically unless you make a histology & see the diffrence in the quality of osseointegration
10:1 its a grit blasted etched surface.
Marketing 101 says:
“The first nanostructured titanium surface by a purely subtractive process.”
Subtractive = grit blasted IMHO
“We have implemented a new decontamination technology which creates an implant surface of utmost purity.”
Heh, strip the oxide off with light etching and let it form again in a clean room environment and you will get a clean oxide.
So they are going for cost savings by not plasma spraying and joining the crowd on the grit blasted acid etched bandwagon.
Puretex is not a blasted surface. The nanoscale surface is created by a chemical and physical process which has been validated to create superior cell attachment and stimulation of osteoblast proliferation and growth. I personally was involved in development and clinical studies. Besides surface topography a new validated surface decontamination and cleaning process has been established to create one of the cleanest surfaces on the market. Due to surface topography the implant properties such as tapping ability and smooth bone contact are not altered.