There was a time when many artificial teeth were made of gold. For good reasons. Gold is inert and non-corrosive. It does not cause tissue reactions; it does not negatively affect gums and other soft tissue. Eventually, because gold is also a relatively soft metal, it was replaced in dentistry with alloys that have similar properties but are much more durable.
Alloys and specialty metals are used significantly in medical devices as well. While multiple varieties of stainless steel were the predominant metals in the earliest days of the medical device industry, metallurgists continued to develop specialty alloys to address very specific device manufacturing needs.
Inductotherm Group companies are very familiar with the uses of element metals and alloys across the dental and medical device industries, and highly knowledgeable about the thermal processing equipment needed in manufacturing everything from dental implants to pacemakers.
