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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Calcium Phosphate Biomaterials: An Overview
Authors : Huipin Yuan, Klaas de Groot
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
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Calcium phosphates are used by our body to build bones and are being applied to produce biomaterials for bone repair. It is well-known that calcium phosphate biomaterials guide new bone formation, form a tight bond with the newly formed bone, and are therefore, by definition, osteoconductive. Besides their osteoconductive property, it was found that calcium phosphate biomaterials, only with specific physicochemical properties, induce bone formation in non-osseous sites and therefore are osteoinductive. A summary of calcium phosphate biomaterials from osteoconduction to osteoinduction is given in this overview.