A review of the bioactivity of hydraulic calcium silicate cements.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In tissue regeneration research, the term "bioactivity" was initially used to describe the resistance to removal of a biomaterial from host tissues after intraosseous implantation. Hydraulic calcium silicate cements (HCSCs) are putatively accepted as bioactive materials, as exemplified by the increasing number of publications reporting that these cements produce an apatite-rich surface layer after they contact simulated body fluids.

Methods

In this review, the same definitions employed for establishing in vitro and in vivo bioactivity in glass-ceramics, and the proposed mechanisms involved in these phenomena are used as blueprints for investigating whether HCSCs are bioactive.

Results

The literature abounds with evidence that HCSCs exhibit in vitro bioactiv

SUBMITTER: Niu LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3995854 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature