Calcium phosphate bone cements for clinical applications - Part I: Solution chemistry

Authors
Fernandez, E Gil, FJ Ginebra, MP Driessens, FCM Planell, JA Best, SM
Citation
E. Fernandez et al., Calcium phosphate bone cements for clinical applications - Part I: Solution chemistry, J MAT S-M M, 10(3), 1999, pp. 169-176
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary
Journal title
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN MEDICINE
ISSN journal
09574530 → ACNP
Volume
10
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
169 - 176
Database
ISI
SICI code
0957-4530(199903)10:3<169:CPBCFC>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Calcium phosphate cements have been the subject of many studies in the last decade because of their biocompatibility, their capacity to fill bone cavi ties and their hardening properties; properties which are desirable in a br oad range of surgical applications. The setting and hardening of these mate rials are controlled by dissolution-precipitation chemical reactions at roo m or body temperature and involve crystalline phase transformations. (C) 19 99 Kluwer Academic Publishers.