Implant (medicine) | 合法醫療器材資訊網

Animplantisamedicaldevicemanufacturedtoreplaceamissingbiologicalstructure,supportadamagedbiologicalstructure,orenhanceanexistingbiological ...

Device surgically placed within the body for medical purposes

An implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure, support a damaged biological structure, or enhance an existing biological structure. For example, an implant may be a rod, used to strengthen weak bones. Medical implants are human-made devices, in contrast to a transplant, which is a transplanted biomedical tissue. The surface of implants that contact the body might be made of a biomedical material such as titanium, silicone, or apatite depending on what is the most functional.[1] In some cases implants contain electronics, e.g. artificia...