ISO 13485 Quality systems
There are two things that can help the medical industry by leaps and bounds:
Quality regulation for medical equipment, medicine, and dental products, and…
A completely free market
This should only make sense. With a free market, you have multiple companies competing with each other. Each one striving hard to outdo the other, trying to develop new solutions and alternatives, and new, more effective, more efficient equipment. And, of course, with some degree of quality control, bad drugs are kept off the market, shoddy equipment isn’t sold, and patients can rest easy.
Biocompatibility of titanium
The biocompatibility of titanium was first discovered in the 1950’s at the Cambridge University in England, when titanium chambers were implanted in rabbits’ ears and it was shown that the ear bones would bond to the metal. The researchers tried to reproduce these results with a number of other metals, but found that this effect seemed to be unique to titanium.
The first experiments on humans focused on dentistry, particularly, dental implants to replace missing or damaged teeth. However, titanium has also been used in many other fields in medicine. In particular, hip implants and metal plates. Titanium bonds so well to bone that it can be put to use in any operation involving the repair of fractured, damaged, or lost bone matter.
