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Ceramics, glasses, and glass-ceramics are increasingly being tested for use in the human body. These materials often have excellent chemical properties for biomedical use, but they are brittle and show fatigue. Careful analysis of their mechanical properties is needed to determine appropriate applications. Hydroxylapatite is emerging as the most promising bioceramic because it shows no foreign body reactions and bonds strongly to bone; if properly made without pores or second phases it has excellent fatigue resistance. Glass-ceramics containing hydroxylapatite crystals also show good promise for many applications. Different forms of these materials, such as dense, granular, mixed granular with plaster of Paris, and coatings on metals are being tested and have very good potential as bioceramics.

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Doremus, R.H. Bioceramics. J Mater Sci 27, 285–297 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00543915

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