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Hydroxyapatite ceramics and the nature of the bone-ceramic interface
J L Ricci1, J M Spivak, H Alexander
1Department of Bioengineering, Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, New York, NY 10003.
Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Hydroxyapatite ceramics have been used as bone implants in a number of experimental systems and clinical applications. We have developed a unique experimental model that allows study of the interface between bone and implant materials. A comparison of titanium and hydroxyapatite materials, using this model, has demonstrated the osteoconductive nature of hydroxyapatite and its ability to bond directly to bone.