 Bone Substitutes
"Bone Substitutes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Synthetic or natural materials for the replacement of bones or bone tissue. They include hard tissue replacement polymers, natural coral, hydroxyapatite, beta-tricalcium phosphate, and various other biomaterials. The bone substitutes as inert materials can be incorporated into surrounding tissue or gradually replaced by original tissue.
| Descriptor ID |
D018786
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D25.130.325 J01.637.051.130.325
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| Concept/Terms |
Bone Substitutes- Bone Substitutes
- Replacement Material, Bone
- Replacement Materials, Bone
- Materials, Bone Replacement
- Bone Substitute
- Substitute, Bone
- Substitutes, Bone
- Bone Replacement Material
- Material, Bone Replacement
- Bone Replacement Materials
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Converse GL, Conrad TL, Merrill CH, Roeder RK. Hydroxyapatite whisker-reinforced polyetherketoneketone bone ingrowth scaffolds. Acta Biomater. 2010 Mar; 6(3):856-63.
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Converse GL, Yue W, Roeder RK. Processing and tensile properties of hydroxyapatite-whisker-reinforced polyetheretherketone. Biomaterials. 2007 Feb; 28(6):927-35.
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