Luca Raffaelli

TL;DR: Clinical evaluations, which have been ongoing for 3 years, indicate a good success rate for zirconia FPDs, and newly proposed zIRconia implants seem to have good biological and mechanical properties; further studies are needed to validate their application.

TL;DR: Porous tantalum metal is currently used in orthopaedic for manufacturing of structural component for primary and revision total hip and knee replacements and, more recently, in spine surgery and good clinical outcomes have been achieved especially in hip revision surgery, using tantalum implants.

TL;DR: Clinical evaluations after 3 years report good percentage of success for zirconia fixed partial denture and absence of mutation and a good viability of cells cultured on this material.

TL;DR: A new chromia-doped ZTA material with interesting properties both from a mechanical and a biocompatibility point of view which warrant further studies on its suitability as a candidate biomaterial for orthopaedic implants and dental devices.

TL;DR: It is suggested that zirconia, exerting low cytotoxicity and strongly inducing adhesion capacity, increases cellular growth rate of fibroblasts and could represent a more suitable biomaterial than FE ceramic for prosthesis in dentistry.