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Ceramic is defined as “synthesized inorganic, solid, crystalline materials, excluding metals”. Ceramics, used as biomaterials to fill defects in tooth and bone, to fix bone grafts, fractures, or prostheses to bone, and to replace diseased tissue, are called bioceramics. They must be highly biocompatible and antithrombogenic, and should not be toxic, allergenic, carcinogenic, or teratogenic. Bioceramics can be classified into three groups; (1) bioinert ceramics, (2) bioactive ceramics, and (3) bioresorbable ceramics. Bioinert ceramics have a high chemical stability in vivo as well as high mechanical strength as a rule, and when they are implanted in living bone, they are incorporated into the bone tissue in accordance with the pattern of “contact osteogenesis”. On the other hand, bioactive ceramics have the character of osteo-conduction and the capability of chemical bonding with living bone tissue.
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Yamamuro, T. (2004). Bioceramics. In: Poitout, D.G. (eds) Biomechanics and Biomaterials in Orthopedics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3774-0_3
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