Innovative ceramic components for improving patient quality of life.

Medical procedures considered impossible a generation ago are now extending lifetimes. Engineered ceramics, such as those supplied by Ceradyne, Inc., allow researchers and engineers to challenge the limits of what is considered possible. Demands for strength, toughness, higher heat resistance, and improved wear properties have made today’s ceramics the materials of choice. From dental to diagnostics, ceramics have been part of the breakthrough process. Ceradyne ceramics are used to withstand the extreme heat generated by a CT scan, to provide toughness in dental components, and to allow the precision required in diagnostic and surgical instruments.

Diagnostic and Surgical
Innovative ceramic injection molding (CIM) capabilities, combined with the unique material properties of ceramics, provide enabling technology for a number of medical applications.

Dental
Ceradyne co-invented ceramic dental brackets in1986 using Transtar®, a translucent polycrystalline aluminum oxide (TPA). Another Ceradyne dental innovation is the zirconium oxide implant.

Ceradyne Advantage
Ceradyne offers a full line of oxide and non-oxide materials along with a complete range of ceramic manufacturing processes for producing any type of component.

Ceramic Injection Molding
Ceramic injection molding (CIM) technology is used to fabricate small, intricately shaped components to high dimensional accuracy without the need for secondary operations.

The unique benefits of Ceradyne Ceralloy® advanced ceramic components set specification standards that cannot be met by similar products made from metals or plastics. Ceralloy® ceramics offer the medical industry the following key benefits:

    Biocompatibility
    Electrical Insulation
    Temperature Resistance
    Dimensional Stability
    Flexural Strength
    Wear Resistance