In vitro evaluation of thermal frontally polymerized thiol-ene composites as bone augments.

ABSTRACT: Because of the large number of total knee replacement (TKR) surgeries conducted per year, and with projections of increased demand to almost a million primary TKR surgeries per year by 2030 in the United States alone, there is a need to discover more efficient working materials as alternatives to current bone cements. There is a need for surgeons and hospitals to become more efficient and better control over the operative environment. One area of inefficiency is the cement steps during TKR. Currently the surgeon has very little control over cement polymerization. This leads to an increase in time, waste, and procedural inefficiencies. There is a clear need to create an extended working time, moldable, osteoconductive, and osteoinductive bone augment as a substitution for the current clinic

SUBMITTER: Totaro NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5021313 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature