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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1978
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kyoto Ceramic Kabushiki Kaisha, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
32 1 / ; 128 / ;
Abstract
This disclosure relates to a somatic element of single crystalline sapphire ceramics for use as an implant for dental surgery, orthopedic prosthetic surgery and the like, which element is excellent in mechanical strength, flexibility and affinity with its ambient tissue so much so that it eliminates a fear of development of bone cancer and facilitates the proliferation of uniform bone tissue around the somatic element implanted.