Dental implant nano-engineering: advances, limitations and future directions

Y Zhang, K Gulati, Z Li, P Di, Y Liu - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Titanium (Ti) and its alloys offer favorable biocompatibility, mechanical properties and
corrosion resistance, which makes them an ideal material choice for dental implants …

Race to invade: Understanding soft tissue integration at the transmucosal region of titanium dental implants

T Guo, K Gulati, H Arora, P Han, B Fournier… - Dental Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives The success of a dental implant system not only depends on appropriate
osseointegration at the bone-implant interface, but also on robust soft-tissue integration …

Orchestrating soft tissue integration at the transmucosal region of titanium implants

T Guo, K Gulati, H Arora, P Han, B Fournier… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Osseointegration at the bone-implant interface and soft tissue integration (STI) at the trans-
mucosal region are crucial for the long-term success of dental implants, especially in …

[HTML][HTML] Fit and forget: the future of dental implant therapy via nanotechnology

K Gulati, D Chopra, NA Kocak-Oztug… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike orthopedic implants, dental implants require the orchestration of both
osseointegration at the bone-implant interface and soft-tissue integration at the …

Preventing peri-implantitis: the quest for a next generation of titanium dental implants

J Hasan, R Bright, A Hayles, D Palms… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Titanium and its alloys are frequently the biomaterial of choice for dental implant
applications. Although titanium dental implants have been utilized for decades, there are yet …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing Nitinol: From heat treatment to surface functionalization for nickel–titanium (NiTi) instruments in endodontics

WS Chan, K Gulati, OA Peters - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Nickel-titanium (NiTi) alloy has been extensively researched in endodontics, particularly in
cleaning and sha** the root canal system. Research advances have primarily focused on …

A brief review on the evolution of metallic dental implants: history, design, and application

SR Kandavalli, Q Wang, M Ebrahimi, C Gode… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, significant advances in the field of medical materials have begun to emerge,
especially in nanotechnology. The modern area of nanostructured implants possesses wide …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing dental implants: Bioactive and therapeutic modifications of zirconia

D Chopra, A Jayasree, T Guo, K Gulati, S Ivanovski - Bioactive Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Zirconium-based implants have gained popularity in the dental implant field owing to their
corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, attributed to the formation of a native zirconia (ZrO …

[HTML][HTML] The integration of peri-implant soft tissues around zirconia abutments: challenges and strategies

K Tang, ML Luo, W Zhou, LN Niu, JH Chen, F Wang - Bioactive materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Stable soft tissue integration around the implant abutment attenuates pathogen penetration,
protects underlying bone tissue, prevents peri-implantitis and is essential in maintaining …

Understanding the influence of electrolyte aging in electrochemical anodization of titanium

K Gulati, RDO Martinez, M Czerwiński… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Titania nanotubes or nanopores self-ordered on electrochemically anodized (EA) titanium
have been widely applied towards photocatalysis, solar cells, purification and biomedical …