The relevance of physical characterisation in the evaluation of the performance...

• Author(s): Judas, F ; Proença, A ; Moura, M ; Piedade, A ; Figueiredo, M
• Date: 2002
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/1439
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Transplantação de Osso; Substitutos do Osso; Regeneração Óssea; Hidroxiapatita
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The present work compares bone allografts with synthetic hydroxyapatite regarding density, porosity, pore size distribution and phase identification. The measurement of these parameters enables a more complete knowledge of the grafts structural properties, which necessarily leads to a better selection of the most appropriate bone substitutes.