Research progress of Medical Compound Bioceramics / 国际生物医学工程杂志

ABSTRACT

With the progresses in medical research, reconstruction of body's deformation because of tumor or injury has been drawn more and more attentions. As autograft was limited by in short supply and dissatisfied performance, material scientists and medical researchers worked hard together and laid emphasis on manmade materials. Early studies were focused on absorbable materials. Since there was great discrepancy between absorption time and tissue repairing time, the studies on absorbable materials were blocked. From 1960's, more and more studies focused on bioceramics because of its excellent biocompatibility and mechanical properties. But the brittleness of bioceramics limited it for clinical use. In recent time, the strengthened ceramics and nano-bioceramics have been paid more attention and made great success. Scientists foretell that nano-technology would be the strategy of changing the brittleness of ceramics. The characters of nano-compound bioceramics were fit for the mechanical properties demand of man's hard tissue more. That infused new vigor into the research of bioceramics.