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Bio ceramics are created in a number of ways and stages, and they serve a wide range of purposes in bodily healing. Bio ceramics are frequently utilized in bulk or porous forms with predetermined shapes, such as implants, prostheses, or prosthetic devices, in biomedical applications.
In addition, bio ceramics are applied as a coating on a substrate or as a second phase in a composite material to achieve enhanced mechanical and biological activities like osteo induction or osseointegration while the natural repair processes restore function.
Bio ceramics are made using a variety of different processes, resulting in a variety of phases, including single crystal, polycrystalline, glass, glass-ceramics, and composites. The chemical composition (stoichiometry or purity), homogeneity, phase distribution, morphology, grain size/grain shape, grain boundaries, crystallite size, crystallinity, pores, cracks, and surface should all be taken into account when characterizing the microstructure of bio ceramics.
Bio ceramic structures often operate in a body-temperature environment, where the thermal cycle may be minimal. However, throughout the manufacturing process, they could go through important temperature cycles.
As an illustration, consider dental porcelain bonded to metal with a little variation in its thermal and elastic characteristics. The materials must be heated to a temperature close to 900 °C during the building of crowns and bridges, which is substantially higher than the porcelain’s glass transition point.
Due to the presence of thermal residual stresses, such thermal cycles may result in the introduction of faults into the structure if the heating or cooling pace cannot be well regulated.
The physical aspects of bio ceramics, in particular the qualities of their surface, are related to their biological activity. We have shown that hydroxyapatite (HA) particles’ toxicity and inflammatory potential were connected to their physical characteristics while having the same chemical makeup.
For instance, in the field of immunization, the physical characteristics of ceramic HA particles—particularly their size and surface structure—have a significant impact on the production of interleukins and TNF, which dictate the particles’ adjuvant effects.
Bio ceramics come in various forms, including porous, powdered, and bulk materials. In contrast to other transfection methods, bio
ceramics that are implanted at a particular spot and are solid in nature allow for a certain degree of cell specificity since the transfected cells must come into touch with the material surface. For instance, since the substance may be inserted right into the tumour, it is valuable for tumor cell transfection.
In orthopedic surgery, bio ceramics are frequently employed as bone replacement materials. Particularly, bioactive ceramics with bone-bonding properties made of calcium phosphate, such hydroxyapatite (HA), have been used. HA has often been utilised in medicine as a filler, spacer, and to physio chemically attach bone to implants. The usage of HA spacer has reduced because thick HA is hard to make attach to the bone and porous HA block used as spacer is fragile.
Osteo conduction must persist at the bone-implant interface even after the beginning of osteoporosis to prevent the prosthesis from becoming loose, necessitating the use of non-resorbable crystalline HA. Because of this, the Interface Bioactive Bone Cement (IBBC) approach has been applied, which entails placing crystalline HA granules at the point where bone and bone cement meet while cementing during surgery.
Since various resorbable bio ceramics and non-resorbable crystalline HA are quite distinct materials, it is crucial to comprehend their unique qualities and characteristics before using them in clinical situations.
The Global bio ceramics market accounted for $XX Billion in 2023 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
FKG Dentaries expands its obturation portfolio with new bio ceramic products. FKG Dentaries has expanded its endodontic obturation product line in the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom, and Israel by introducing BC Universal Sealer and BC Universal RRM. With this introduction, FKG is now able to help practitioners in achieving their treatment goals by providing a more comprehensive obturation portfolio.
FKG Dentaries works hard to offer endodontists and dentists the greatest products. The best-in-class Total Fill series of obturation products has been made available by FKG since 2013. Thanks to its distinctive composition and comprehensive treatment spectrum (cold obturation, heated obturation, tips, points, pellets, paste, putty, and rapid set putty), Total Fill offers outstanding therapeutic advantages.
Studies on the product have been published in more than 80 publications. FKG Dentaries will keep concentrating mainly on Total Fill. There won’t be any changes made to the FKG Total Fill offering because it is the most significant, greatest, and most comprehensive product in the FKG obturation portfolio.
In addition to Total Fill, the new BC Universal products will be made available in the EU, UK, and Israel to assist doctors searching for therapeutic advantages at a more affordable price.
A permanent obturator for root canal therapy, BC Universal Sealer is an injectable calcium aluminosilicate paste that has been pre-mixed and is ready to use. It has great adherence to gutta-percha and dentine, biocompatibility, antimicrobial effects from a high pH > 12 maintained for seven days, bioactivity from the production of hydroxyapatite, and bioactivity. The BC Universal Sealer has good root canal sealing ability, does not shrink during setting, and is radiopaque.
A ready-to-use capsule called BC Universal RRM was created for pulp capping, root canal repair due to perforation or resorption, root-end filling, and apexification.
It contains premixed calcium aluminosilicate paste. It offers high biocompatibility, antibacterial effects from the alkaline pH, a suitable setting time for application, low solubility, superior dislodgement resistance from the higher compressive strength, high stability, radiopacity, and color stability, as well as high stability, high stability, and radiopacity.
FKG now offers a more comprehensive obturation range to serve all practitioners with these new solutions. FKG’s greatest obturation solution, Total Fill, offers superb therapeutic advantages and a full spectrum of synergistic treatments. In certain nations, BC Universal offers clinical advantages at a more affordable price alongside the Total Fill portfolio.
