Use of bioactive glasses as bone substitutes in orthopaedics and traumatology
J. Heikkilä, Sports Clinic and Hospital Mehiläinen Turku, Finland
Abstract:
Bioactive glass is one of many biomaterials suggested for bone replacement. Its advantages include non-toxicity, biocompatibility and bioactivity. Additionally, through a surface reaction the glass forms a Ca’P-layer after implantation within the body, through which the host bone grows together with the glass. Through continuous reaction and layer formation the glass is finally absorbed and replaced with bone. Fractures and cavitary bone tumors at metaphyseal bone regions are among the best clinical applications for bioactive glass. It has also been used in diaphyseal bone defects ...
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