Implants and methods for producing same are described, the implants featuring an adjustable porous shell, the inside being continuously interconnectingly adjustably porous and which can be sintered net shaped; these implants exhibit a high compression stability and show, when being combined with filler materials with or without active agents, different chemical, physical-mechanical, biomechanical or also pharmacological properties. The essential features of the manufacturing process are described in FIG. (1) and comprise expandable shaping elements, deformable elastic tools, the application of defined negative pressures, temperatures during defined application periods in combination with combined materials, which can be separated from each other physically, chemically or mechanically and removed.

 
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