Bone Grafts

Porous Ceramics Offer Effective Artificial Substitutes

Published in Blood Weekly, December 9th, 1996

Ceramic materials may offer orthopedic surgeons and their patients more choices in the repair of segmental long bone defects.

Sufficient quantities of autogenous cancellous bone - considered the ideal graft material for treating certain bone defects - are not always available, noted Kenneth D. Johnson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues ("Porous Ceramics as Bone Graft Substitutes in Long Bone Defects: A Biomechanical, Histological, and Radiographic Analysis," Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 1996;4:351-369). Investigating potential substitute material, Johnson et al. compared the attributes of three porous ceramic bone graft materials in...

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