CN115105233B - Base station screw channel filling column and preparation method thereof - Google Patents
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Abstract
本发明公开了一种基台螺丝通道填充柱及其制备方法，属于医疗机械用材料技术领域，所述的基台螺丝通道填充柱的制备方法，包括以下步骤：将膨体聚四氟乙烯薄膜卷成具有层状螺纹结构的圆柱形长条，剪切成柱状固体，即得基台螺丝通道填充柱；所述膨体聚四氟乙烯薄膜的厚度为60～90μm、泡点压力为200～300KPa。本发明所述的基台螺丝通道填充柱能够有效的改善螺丝通道处的填充封闭问题，能够很好的与基台螺丝通道的形状尺寸契合，密封效果良好，同时，可以有效的避免细菌的粘附，从而避免种植义齿被微生物侵入，有效的降低义齿附件出现炎症和骨丢失的情况，提高义齿种植的成功率。
The invention discloses an abutment screw channel filling column and a preparation method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of medical machinery materials. The preparation method of the abutment screw channel filling column includes the following steps: Roll it into a cylindrical strip with a layered thread structure, and cut it into a columnar solid to obtain the abutment screw channel filled column; the thickness of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is 60-90 μm, and the bubble point pressure is 200-200 300KPa. The abutment screw channel filling column of the present invention can effectively improve the filling and sealing problem at the screw channel, can fit well with the shape and size of the abutment screw channel, has a good sealing effect, and can effectively avoid bacterial adhesion. Attached, thereby preventing the denture implant from being invaded by microorganisms, effectively reducing inflammation and bone loss in the denture attachment, and improving the success rate of denture implantation.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of materials for medical machinery, in particular to a base station screw channel filling column and a preparation method thereof.
Background
After the screw-retained denture supported by the dental implant is repaired, the screw channel is closed by adopting a proper filling material, and the filling material protects the fixed abutment screw and isolates the environment in the oral cavity, so that micro-leakage at the position is avoided as much as possible to prevent bacteria in the oral cavity from entering the implant prosthesis to cause infection. Therefore, a suitable screw hole sealing material is of great importance for the long-term clinical effect of the implant prosthesis for screw retention.
The filling materials used as the screw channel of the base station in the market at present are cotton, silica gel and the like, wherein the filling and sealing effects of the cotton are common, the cotton is easy to remain in the screw channel when taken out in a secondary operation, and the operation is inconvenient; for the filling material taking the silica gel as the raw material, the shape and the size of the silica gel are not necessarily completely matched with the size of the filled channel because the silica gel is provided in a preformed solid form, so that the sealing effect is poor, and on the other hand, the mechanical strength of the silica gel is relatively low, and the silica gel is easy to break during secondary operation and is easy to increase in operation difficulty.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide a base screw channel filling column and a preparation method thereof, wherein the base screw channel filling column effectively improves the filling and sealing problem at a screw channel, avoids the adhesion of bacteria, effectively reduces the conditions of inflammation and bone loss of denture accessories and improves the success rate of denture planting.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
a preparation method of a base station screw channel filling column comprises the following steps:
rolling the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with a layered thread structure, and shearing the cylindrical strip into columnar solids to obtain a base station screw channel filling column;
the thickness of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is 60-90 mu m, and the bubble point pressure is 200-300 KPa.
According to the invention, the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film with specific thickness and bubble point pressure is rolled into the cylindrical strip with the layered thread structure and sheared into the columnar solid, so that the problem of filling and sealing at the screw channel can be effectively solved, the sealing effect is good, meanwhile, the adhesion of bacteria can be effectively avoided, thus the invasion of the implanted denture by microorganisms is avoided, the conditions of inflammation and bone loss of the denture attachment are effectively reduced, and the success rate of denture implantation is improved.
By controlling the thickness and bubble point pressure of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film within the above ranges, the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film has good toughness and processing plasticity, and can be well rolled into a layered thread structure, so that the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film has good filling and sealing performances.
The abutment screw channel filling column has good biocompatibility, and the component materials have stable physical and chemical properties and biological aging resistance, so that the filling column can basically exist stably after being filled into the denture cavity, can not be degraded, and meanwhile, the surface energy of the filling column is low, the adhesion force generated correspondingly is low, adhesion or residue can not be generated when the filling column needs to be taken out through a secondary operation, and the clinical operation is simple and convenient to take.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film has a thickness of 70 to 80 μm and a bubble point pressure of 220 to 280KPa.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film has a thickness of 75 μm and a bubble point pressure of 270KPa.
As a preferred embodiment of the invention, the diameter of the cylindrical strip is 1.5-3 mm.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the columnar solid has a diameter of 1.5 to 3mm and a length of 2 to 10mm.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the rolling of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip having a layered thread structure is specifically:
rolling the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with a layered thread structure through a film rolling device;
the film rolling equipment comprises a guide rail slide block and a motor, wherein a clamp is fixed on the side face of the motor, the motor is electrically connected with a controller, the motor is fixed on the guide rail slide block, and a linear slide rail is arranged below the guide rail slide block.
By adopting the layered thread structure formed by the film rolling of the film rolling equipment, the tensile internal stress can be effectively resisted, so that the tensile strength of the filling column is enhanced, and the compression elasticity of the filling column can be further enhanced.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the motor includes at least one of a continuously variable motor, a 42-step motor, and a 57-step motor, and the rotational speed of the motor is not more than 10 turns/sec.
As a preferred embodiment of the invention, the motor has a rotational speed of 2 to 4 turns/second.
The inventor of the present invention found in the research that the rotation speed of the electrode can significantly affect the tensile strength of the prepared filling column, if the rotation speed is too high, the torque can be too high, the excessive stretching can be caused, and if the rotation speed is too low, the torque is too small, and the lamellar thread structure can not be formed.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the rotational speed of the motor is 3 turns/second.
The abutment screw channel filling column is prepared by adopting the preparation method of the abutment screw channel filling column.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: (1) The abutment screw channel filling column can effectively solve the problem of filling and sealing at the screw channel, can be well matched with the shape and the size of the abutment screw channel, has good sealing effect, and can effectively avoid adhesion of bacteria, thereby avoiding invasion of implant dentures by microorganisms, effectively reducing inflammation and bone loss of denture accessories and improving success rate of denture implantation; (2) The base station screw channel filling column has good toughness and processing plasticity, and can be well coiled into a layered thread structure, so that the base station screw channel filling column has good filling and sealing performances; (3) The abutment screw channel filling column has good biocompatibility, and the component materials have stable physical and chemical properties and biological aging resistance, so that the filling column can basically exist stably after being filled into the denture cavity, can not be degraded, and meanwhile, the surface energy of the filling column is low, the adhesion force generated correspondingly is low, adhesion or residue can not be generated when the filling column needs to be taken out through a secondary operation, and the clinical operation is simple and convenient to take.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a film rolling device according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a physical diagram of the filling column of the base screw channel prepared in example 2;
fig. 3 is a physical diagram of the base screw channel packing column prepared in example 2 at a magnification of 50 times.
The marks in the figure: 1. a linear slide rail; 2. a guide rail slide block; 3. a motor; 4. a clamp; 5. and a controller.
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For the purpose of making the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
The reagents or apparatus used in the present invention are conventional products commercially available without the manufacturer's knowledge.
Example 1
Referring to fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a film rolling apparatus, which includes a guide rail slider 2 and a motor 3, a fixture 4 is fixed on a side surface of the motor 2, the motor 3 is electrically connected with a controller 5, the motor 3 is fixed on the guide rail slider 2, a linear slide rail 1 is arranged below the guide rail slider 2, and the motor 2 is a 42-step motor.
Example 2
A preparation method of a base station screw channel filling column comprises the following steps:
rolling the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with a layered thread structure and 2mm by the film rolling equipment in the embodiment 1, and cutting the cylindrical strip into a cylindrical solid with a thickness of 5mm to obtain a base screw channel filling column; the thickness of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is 75 mu m, and the bubble point pressure is 270KPa.
Specifically, the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is fixed by a clamp, and a motor is started to roll the film through a controller. (the same applies below)
The rotational speed of the film rolling device is 3 circles/second.
The physical diagram of the abutment screw channel filling column prepared in example 2 is shown in fig. 2, and the physical diagram of the abutment screw channel filling column which is 50 times enlarged is shown in fig. 3, and it can be seen that the abutment screw channel filling column has a layered thread structure.
Example 3
A preparation method of a base station screw channel filling column comprises the following steps:
rolling the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with a layered thread structure and 1.5mm by the film rolling equipment in the embodiment 1, and cutting the cylindrical strip into a cylindrical solid with a thickness of 10mm to obtain a base station screw channel filling column; the thickness of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is 70 mu m, and the bubble point pressure is 300KPa.
The rotational speed of the film rolling device is 2 circles/second.
Example 4
A preparation method of a base station screw channel filling column comprises the following steps:
rolling the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with 3mm and a layered thread structure by the film rolling equipment in the embodiment 1, and cutting the cylindrical strip into a cylindrical solid with 2mm to obtain a base screw channel filling column; the thickness of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is 80 mu m, and the bubble point pressure is 200KPa.
The rotational speed of the film rolling device is 4 circles/second.
Example 5
A preparation method of a base station screw channel filling column comprises the following steps:
rolling the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with 3mm and a layered thread structure by the film rolling equipment in the embodiment 1, and cutting the cylindrical strip into a cylindrical solid with 2mm to obtain a base screw channel filling column; the thickness of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is 80 mu m, and the bubble point pressure is 200KPa.
The rotational speed of the film rolling device is 6 circles/second.
Comparative example 1
A preparation method of a base station screw channel filling column comprises the following steps:
the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film was wound at a rotational speed of 15 turns/sec by the winding apparatus described in example 1, and the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film was excessively stretched.
Comparative example 2
A preparation method of a base station screw channel filling column comprises the following steps:
the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film was rolled at a rotational speed of 1 turn/sec by the film rolling apparatus described in example 1, and the rotational speed was too low to form a layered thread structure.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solution of the present invention and not for limiting the scope of the present invention, and although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that modifications or equivalent substitutions can be made to the technical solution of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solution of the present invention.
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1. The preparation method of the abutment screw channel filling column is characterized by comprising the following steps of:
rolling the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with a layered thread structure, and shearing the cylindrical strip into columnar solids to obtain a base station screw channel filling column;
the thickness of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is 60-90 mu m, and the bubble point pressure is 200-300 Kpa;
the diameter of the cylindrical strip is 1.5-3 mm;
the diameter of the columnar solid is 1.5-3 mm, and the length is 2-10 mm;
the rolling of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with a layered thread structure is specifically as follows:
rolling the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film into a cylindrical strip with a layered thread structure through a film rolling device;
the film rolling equipment comprises a guide rail slide block and a motor, wherein a clamp is fixed on the side surface of the motor, the motor is electrically connected with the controller, the motor is fixed on the guide rail slide block, and a linear slide rail is arranged below the guide rail slide block;
the rotating speed of the motor is 2-4 circles/second.
2. The method for preparing a filling column for a base screw channel according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film is 70-80 μm, and the bubble point pressure is 220-280 KPa.
3. The method of preparing a abutment screw channel packing post according to claim 2, wherein the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene film has a thickness of 75 μm and a bubble point pressure of 270KPa.
4. The method of preparing a abutment screw channel packing post according to claim 1, wherein the motor comprises at least one of a continuously variable motor, a 42 step motor, a 57 step motor, and the rotational speed of the motor is not greater than 10 turns/sec.
5. The method of preparing a abutment screw channel packing post according to claim 1, wherein the rotational speed of the motor is 3 turns/second.
6. A base screw channel filling column, which is characterized by being prepared by adopting the preparation method of the base screw channel filling column according to any one of claims 1-5.
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