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Home / Health News / Coming soon – A bone substitute without toxins

Coming soon – A bone substitute without toxins

You read it right. A fragile 'ceramic' material can now work as a bone substitute.

By: Agencies   | | Updated: October 19, 2015 4:20 pm
Tags: Bone and joint disease  In the news  Medical research  

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A team of researchers at National Polytechnic Institute (NPI) in France, have found that Hydroxylapatite – medullar component of the bone – when obtained synthetically and ‘giving’ it some characteristics, could be used as a bone substitute. Also Read - Does your child have Krabbe disease? An effective treatment may be here soon



‘Hydroxylapatite, when obtained synthetically, conserves its properties and could work as a bone substitute because, according to our studies, it doesn’t cause toxicity in the human body,’ said Lucia Téllez Jurado from the laboratory of heavy materials of metallurgic engineer at Superior School of Chemical Engineering and Extractive Industries (ESIQUE). (Read: Cartilage graft could make painful fractures and bad bone grafts redundant) Also Read - Ganesh Chaturthi 2020: 4 reasons an eco-friendly Ganesha is good for you

Hydroxylapatite is a widely studied material, employed as a biomaterial and can be obtained from animal skeletons or synthetically. Another of its applications is as a filter for heavy metals.

The researchers found that Hydroxylapatite obtained synthetically is a fragile ‘ceramic’ so it would be necessary to add other substances giving them mechanical resistance.

They are now looking for a material with optimal properties that could be applied on a large bone like femur or fingers.

‘We are interested in obtaining a material that complies with mechanical characteristics so it can be implanted or used as a substitute for a broken bone when no other option is available,’ said Jurado.

‘We are going to test several materials, checking their mechanical compositions so it has the required characteristics and works in humans. If someone has a fracture, the technology must be applied without causing further damage,’ Jurado added.

Source: IANS

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Published : January 2, 2014 12:54 pm | Updated:October 19, 2015 4:20 pm
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