Bioactive glasses: Frontiers and challenges [PDF]
Bioactive glasses were discovered in 1969 and provided for the first time an alternative to nearly inert implant materials. Bioglass formed a rapid, strong and stable bond with host tissues.
Larry L. Hench, Julian R. Jones
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Advanced Bioactive Glasses: The Newest Achievements and Breakthroughs in the Area [PDF]
Bioactive glasses (BGs) are especially useful materials in soft and bone tissue engineering and even in dentistry. They can be the solution to many medical problems, and they have a huge role in the healing processes of bone fractures.
Maroua H. Kaou +3 more
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Borosilicate bioactive glasses with added Mg/Sr enhances human adipose-derived stem cells osteogenic commitment and angiogenic properties [PDF]
Bioactive glasses are one of the most promising materials for applications in bone tissue engineering. In this study, the focus was on borosilicate bioactive glasses with composition 47.12 SiO2 - 6.73 B2O3 - 21.77-x-y CaO - 22.65 Na2O - 1.72 P2O5 - x MgO
Jenna M. Tainio +3 more
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Bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics
Since the late 1960´s, a great interest in the use of bioceramic materials for biomedical applications has been developed. In a previous paper, the authors reviewed crystalline bioceramic materials “sensus stricto”, it is to say, those ceramic materials,
de Aza, P. N. +3 more
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Corrosion mechanism and bioactivity of borate glasses analogue to Hench’s bioglass [PDF]
Bioactive borate glasses (from the system Na2O-CaO-B2O3-P2O5) and corresponding glass-ceramics as a new class of scaffold material were prepared by full replacement of SiO2 with B2O3 in Hench patented bioactive glass.
Mona A. Ouis +2 more
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Application of bioactive glasses in various dental fields
Bioactive glasses are a group of bioceramic materials that have extensive clinical applications. Their properties such as high biocompatibility, antimicrobial features, and bioactivity in the internal environment of the body have made them useful ...
Nazanin Jafari +5 more
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Bioactive glass coatings obtained by thermal spray: Current status and future challenges
Several inorganic materials such as bioactive glasses, glass–ceramics and calcium phosphates have been shown to be bioactive and resorbable which make them suitable for coating bone implants. This study focuses only on bioactive glasses.
Beatriz Garrido +2 more
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Role of the Short Distance Order in Glass Reactivity [PDF]
In 2005, our group described for the first time the structural characterization at the atomic scale of bioactive glasses and the influence of the glasses’ nanostructure in their reactivity in simulated body fluids.
Salinas Sánchez, Antonio J. +1 more
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Effect of Al2O3 Doping on Antibacterial Activity of 45S5 Bioactive Glass
45S5 bioactive glasses (BGs) are special class of glasses that form chemical bonds with surrounding bone tissue, which is due to the dissolution behavior of these glass materials.
Yeliz ELALMIŞ
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Bioactive Glass: Methods for Assessing Angiogenesis and Osteogenesis
Biomaterials are playing an increased role in the regeneration of damaged or absent bone tissue in the context of trauma, non-union, infection or congenital abnormality.
Jos Crush +3 more
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