In contrast to metal components, the ceramic screw nail integrates into the bone and does not have to be removed, since the two most used bioceramic materials -- calcium phosphate and ...

This method is key to production of intricate features and unusual geometries, most notably for hearing-assist devices, bone screws, and implantable heart pumps. Testing of ceramic injectionmolded ...

Screws used in surgical operations ... made of polylactic acid and hydroxylapatite, a ceramic which is the main constituent of the bone mineral. "This composite possesses a higher proportion ...

a ceramic which is the main constituent of the bone mineral. This composite promotes the growth of bone into the implant. Depending on the composition the screws will biodegrade in 24 months.

Instead of conventional surgery using only screws and metal plates, these patients, in addition, received a ceramic bone substitute injection around the orthopaedic implant. The material ...

Most modern broken bones are healed with the help of titanium screws and plates that sometimes must be removed afterward. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering ...

Biomechanical engineers from TU Graz are developing surgical screws from donated human bone material for foot and jaw surgery together with Surgebright, a start-up from Linz, Austria. To heal ...