Ceramic Biological Uses

Surgical cermets are used regularly.

Ceramic biological uses.

In surface reactive ceramics such as hydroxyapatite and certain compositions of silicate glasses and glass ceramics are used the materials attach directly by chemical bonding with the bone bioactive fixation. The modern ceramic materials which are classified as advanced ceramics include silicon carbide and tungsten carbide. Ceramics are now commonly used in the medical fields as dental and bone implants. Bioactive ceramics are also used as coatings on metallic implants.

Both are valued for their abrasion resistance and hence find use in applications such as the wear plates of crushing equipment in mining operations. As a class of materials bio ceramics can be used in reconstructive approaches as a total artificial replacement for the hip knee shoulder elbow and wrist as bone plates bone screws and bone wires as intramedullary nails to repair fractures harrington rods to correct spinal curvature vertebrae spacers and extensors to correct congenital deformity as a way a fusing the spine to protect the spinal cord alveolar bone replacements mandibular reconstruction dental implants to replace. Joint replacements are commonly coated with bioceramic materials to reduce wear and inflammatory response.