Effect of Staphylococcus aureus embedded on titanium foam which uses as biomedical implant | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of the Staphylococcus aureus, on the titanium foam. . It has been attempted to fabricate the foam with different pore size like 50%, 60%, 70% and 80% with different volume fraction of used space holder cenosphere through powder metallurgy route. According to many research papers porosity plays an important role as bio implant material. It has been prepared different size titanium pellets i.e.15mm and 12mm   to see the effect of the surface area of the fabricated sample of implant material. Recently, In medical field, solid implant material is in use like Titanium, Steel, Ni-Titanium rod but due to the lack of porosity these implant material does not perform well osseointegration. It has been attempted to observe the roll of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus in the above said fabricated titanium foam. It has been found that porosity in this foam played the key role as it worked as transporter. Foam has greater pores i.e.80% is more sensitive to develop the bacteria while 50% porous titanium foam is less sensitive meanwhile another sized porous titanium foam had been showed moderate capability of growing the bacteria. Through the all physical, mechanical, chemical and biological observation, titanium foam can be beneficial for the future use. It can be helpful in medical field as cheap and light weight implant material.