The Comparison of Bone-Like Apatite Formation on Two Kinds of Bio-Active Material Surface Under the Low-Intensive Pulsed Ultrasound Waving (LIPUS) for Osseointegration

The Comparison of Bone-Like Apatite Formation on Two Kinds of Bio-Active Material Surface Under the Low-Intensive Pulsed Ultrasound Waving (LIPUS) for Osseointegration. ABSTRACT Excellent osteoconductivity or osseointegration of biomaterial is very important for the stability of artificial joints and dental implants in clinical field.Against this background, We have already reported that the low-intensive pulsed ultrasound wave stimulation (LIPUS) could accelerate the bone-like hydroxyapatite precipitation on the bioactive material surface, which corresponds to osseointgration. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference between the kinds of biomaterials the osseointegration enhanced by LIPUS in vitro. Hydroxyapatite (99.9%) and Bio-active titanium were soaked in simulated body fluid under the LIPUS radiation, and accessed by scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffraction, the mass of precipitation was measured.In a result, bio-active titanium showed the more rich bone-like apatite formation on the surface than hydroxyapatite. These facts suggested that the formation of bone-like apatite might depend on the initial epitaxial nucleation growth biomaterial surface.


Introduction
Nowadays, dental implants have become more common treatment for replacing missing teeth and aim to improve chewing efficiency, physical health, and esthetics. The favorable clinical performance of dental implants has been attributed to their firm "osseointegration" as a direct contact between living bone and the surface of a load-carrying implant at the histological level introduced by Brånemark [1,2]. Considering the clinical view, more early bonding between dental implant and living bone will accelerate the onset of activity of patients soon after an operation, with subsequent good long-term results, therefore, some approach has been tried to accelerate the osseointegration or the bone bonding to HA material. Much has been learned about this concept and significant improvements on the design and surface of implants were done to eliminate the important challenges of the implant dentistry and orthopedics surgery [3][4][5]. Against this background, considering the efficacy of ultrasound waving for treatment of delayed union bone fractures, we have already reported that the low-intensive pulsed ultrasound waving (LIPUS) stimulation could accelerate the bone bonding ability on bioactive titanium surface [6,7] and hydroxyapatite surface [8] in vitro and in vivo studies.
This fact insisted that the LIPUS is strongly expected as an excellent clinical application for the enhance of osseointegration or bone bonding of bio-active implant in dental surgery and orthopedics surgery fields.
As regarding the mechanism of this enhancement by LIPUS, our data indicated that the LIPUS could accelerate the bonelike apatite formation on the bio-conductive material surfaces, secondary this apatite layer provided the bonding with the natural bone tissue matrix. Thus, initial apatite crystallization process on for the enhancement of Osseointegration or bon bonding ability of the material by LIPUS. On the other hand, the nucleation and crystallization are significantly depending on the surface matrix from a crystallographic point of view. Then, in this study, we assessed the differences of the bone-like apatite formation process between the two kinds of materials, hydroxyapatite, and bio-active titanium surface under the LIPUS in simulated body fluid (SBF) .

Experimental Specimens
In this experimental, specimens were prepared two kinds of biomaterials , hydroxyapatite, and bio-active titanium metal. As a hydroxyapatite material, commercial CELLYARD (CELLYARD TM pellet manufactured by HOYA, Japan) was used. Bio-active titanium specimen ( the pure bioactive titanium ) were prepared according to a following procedure. Briefly, samples of pure titanium ( 99.9% Ti ; Daido steel Co. Japan ) were cut into 3 mm ×3 mm ×3 mm cubic dice, polished and chemically treated with NaOH solution (concentration : 2M / l) for 2 hours reaction time. After that, these samples were heated at 600 ºC for 1 hour in an electric furnace and then cooled to room temperature in the furnace for 24 hours to modify the surface.

Analysis
After the above mentioned processes were completed, the hydroxyapatite and titanium specimens surface were subjected to scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and these analyses were focused on the top surface, on which the ultrasound waves was directly radiated. Furthermore, to compare with the effect of ultrasound waves, the change of the specimen's mass before/after the SBF treatment was measured.    Figure 4 showed the XRD patterns of the precipitation on both of specimen surfaces after soaking for 2weeks. The XRD analysis indicated the existence of a calcium-phosphate crystalline which means a bone-like apatite on surface of two kinds of specimen, some typical hydroxyapatite peaks were also confirmed.

Discussion
The enhancement effect of LIPUS to bone-like apatite formation on bio-active materials surface from there result, it was thought that precipitate of bone kike-apatite crystal growth on specimens surface of LIPUS group, and it has been speculated that ultrasound wave accelerated to the effect of crystal growth. Kokubo et al.
showed apatite deposition from SBF as evaluation method of the bioactive biomaterials in vitro, described physical deposition as the mechanism of bone formation from SBF to material surface of PO 2-, Ca 2+ and other and crystallization process [9]. This deposition process of apatite was physical and chemical changes without biological factor as well as apatite mineralization process of this experiment, therefore, it was considered that ultrasound waving with ion concentration with moderate intensity has a possibility to enhance the mineralization on the biomaterial surface. As a result, the increasing of calcium-phosphate precipitation including partial hydroxyapatite crystalline by LIPUS was confirmed. As for the mechanism, we speculate that the partial concentration and interatomic potential of the Ca and PO 4 [10]. According to his report, the rapid crystallization caused by ultrasound waves is considered to enhance the nucleation process rather than the growth stage. The same ultrasound-induced crystallization has been recently reported in the metallurgy field; however, the detailed mechanism is still unclear [11,12].

Apatite Formation
As for the comparison of the mass of bone-like apatite between the two kinds of materials, bio-active titanium and HA, bio-active titanium demonstrated more rich formation than HA although it is difficult to evaluate the superiority of the apatite formation ability of two materials since the characteristics of material surface such as rough surface etc. we are not controlled in this study. Figure 6 shows These findings suggested that the conductive crystal orientation of the initial calcium phosphate mineralization could be limited by anionic bond according to epitaxial orientation of HA ceramics. On the other hand, according to Kokubo [13], pure bio-active titanium has more excellent osteoconductivity since pure titanium has more rich modified sodium titanium hydrogel layer, which is suitable for formation of the bone-like apatite crystalline. In the view of the crystallogaphically, this modified sodium titanium hydrogel was amorphous structure, which is able to have many orientations for initial nucleation and deposition of calcium phosphate crystallization. Therefore, the seed of early apatite formation on bio-active titanium will be superior to that of HA surface.