Tantalum metal has excellent corrosion resistance, high melting point, high strength, and wear resistance, and is widely used in heat-resistant materials such as aircraft and rockets, as well as industrial fields that require high-strength components.

In addition, tantalum metal has excellent physical and mechanical properties, as well as good biocompatibility, making it another new type of biomaterial after titanium metal. It is widely used in medical related fields such as oral implant implantation, femoral head necrosis, coronary artery stent implantation, artificial acetabular prosthesis implantation, and surgical suture production.

Tantalum metal has been used as an implant material in the restoration of missing teeth in patients. With the development of technology, porous tantalum has also been attempted to be applied in the field of implants. Due to its outstanding mechanical and biological properties, elastic modulus comparable to bone tissue, and high friction coefficient, it can provide good osseointegration and initial stability for implants, and is known as trabecular bone implants.

Tantalum and porous tantalum have important clinical value and application prospects in various fields of medicine, such as dentistry, orthopedics, cardiovascular surgery, biomedical engineering, etc., due to their good biocompatibility. The application of surface modification technology will enable metal tantalum and porous tantalum to have more excellent biological properties, greatly improving the bonding ability between tantalum and porous tantalum implants and the surrounding bone interface, thereby better improving the clinical performance of implants. The successful application of tantalum in healthcare has brought good news to doctors and patients, and is a major progress in medical treatment.