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Nowadays orthopaedic and dental metallic prostheses are widely used in the medical field, the most common being 316L stainless steel, Co-Cr alloys, titanium (Ti) or Ti superalloys. These metallic materials were preferred due to their good mechanical performance, adequate stiffness, non-magnetic properties and to their intrinsic property of promoting on their surface in contact with air or biological media a very thin and biologically inert oxide film (Cr2O3 in case of stainless steel and Co-Cr alloy or TiO2 for (Ti) and Ti alloys), which could act as a metallic ions diffusion barrier layer. However, due to corrosion in the aggressive biological media, this thin protective layer could easily be shattered locally and metallic ions could enter the biological environment causing adverse reactions. Allergies, bone necrosis and the accumulation of metal particles in organs were detected in some cases (C. Brown et al., 2006; C. Brown et al., 2007).

Magnetron Sputtered BG Thin Films: An Alternative Biofunctionalization Approach – Peculiarities of Bioglass Sputtering and Bioactivity Behaviour