Course Language:
English
Course Objectives:
The aim of this course is to provide student with knowledge of cements for hard tissue repair.
Course Content:
Description of hard tissues, brief review of hard tissue-cell interactions, description of the mineralogical structure of bones and teeth, bone defect filling applications, inorganic cements for hard tissue repair, organic cements for bone repair and fixation, chemistry of injectable cements, ISO standards relevant to orthopedic cement manufacture, sterilization of cements, cytotoxicity of cements.