Evaluation of Bioceramic Materials in Biology and Medicine

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the properties of bioceramic materials.Therefore, the use of cell technology and tissue engineering requires excellent biomaterials to retain and cultivate cells and tissues both in vitro and in vivo.Indeed, polymers and bioceramics have been developed for biomedical applications, and bioceramics have been implanted for a longer time and proved to be safe for humans. Composites of bioceramics with polymers are also recent advances in fabrication technology of bioceramics. It is lastly stressed that very few materials have been developed since the discovery of the above conventional bioceramics such as calcium phosphates, stabilized zirconia, alumina and bioactive glasses. It is necessary to create new bioceramics for a lasting development in the future. Because of the excellent biocompatibility, matching shade, good anticorrosion ability, bioceramics are ever more widely being used in the biomedical fi eld. Most of these bioceramic appliances need to bear forces during their lives. As result of this inverstigation, bioceramics are expected to be further developed for such newly proposed aims of regenerative medicine.