With technologies targeted at the medical, defense, and renewable energy markets, year-over-year growth in revenues, and other commercial opportunities in the pipeline, SINTX will require additional investment and resources. As such, we want to examine all strategic opportunities targeted at maximizing shareholder value,” said Sonny Bal, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of SINTX. “We believe that potential partners will find significant value in SINTX’s businesses and capabilities.”
Last time Mic, they were looking at just the dental markets. What they are looking for now seems to be much larger. This was last time.
“Ascendiant Capital”), as investment bank and advisor, to identify strategic opportunities in the dental space.
“While we have been working closely with dental implant companies in specific development projects, Ascendiant Capital will play a critical role in disseminating our R&D advancements to a wider audience of partners, and helping commercialize the technology,” stated Dr. Sonny Bal, President and CEO of SINTX. “We are excited to represent SINTX Technologies, having deep experience and knowledge of dental companies worldwide,” said Dr. Christopher Gayde, a former practicing dentist and Managing Director of Ascendiant Capital’s Dental Investment Banking Group.
Silicon Nitride, a Close to Ideal Ceramic Material for Medical Application
examples of their medical applications that relate to spinal, orthopedic and dental implants, bone grafts and scaffolds, platforms for intelligent synthetic neural circuits, antibacterial and antiviral particles and coatings, optical biosensors, and nano-photonic waveguides for sophisticated medical diagnostic devices are all covered in the research reviewed herein. The examples provided convincingly show that silicon nitride is destined to become a leader to replace titanium and other entrenched biomaterials in many fields of medicine.
Silicon nitride, silicon carbide and diamond-like carbon as non-oxide ceramics are considered to be the new generation of materials used in hip prosthetics, particularly in the manufacture of acetabular cups, due to their excellent biocompatibility, osteointegration, and tribological and mechanical properties, but all three materials need more study. However, silicon nitride is the nearest to commercialization, through businesses such as Amedica Corp. and SyntX Technologies