Woodhead Publishing Orthopaedic Bone Cements (Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials)

Bone cements are widely used in orthopaedic applications to bond an implant to existing bone and remodelling following bone loss. Orthopaedic bone cements is an authoritative review of research, which focuses on improving the mechanical and biological performance of bone cements. The first section of the book discusses the use of bone cements in medicine in addition to commercial aspects and delivery systems. Bone cement materials are reviewed in the second section of the book, followed by their mechanical properties in part three. Techniques to enhance bone cements are discussed in the final section, such as antibiotic loading and bioactive cements. Key Features: provides a review of recent research focussing on improving the mechanical and biological performance of bone cements; discusses the current applications of bone cements particularly in hip replacement, verteboplasty and wear particles; reviews types of materials and acrylic, polymethlymethacrylate and calcium phosphate as types of cements; addresses mechanical properties of bone cements such as fracture toughness; examines methods to enhance the properties of bone cements. Part 1 Bone cements in medicine: Bone disease; Hip replacements; Knee replacements; Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty; Antibiotic-impregnated polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) spacers in hip surgery; Commercial aspects and delivery systems of bone cements; Wear particles and osteolysis. Part 2 Materials: Acrylic bone cement: Genesis and evolution; Poly(methylmethacrylate) bone cement: Chemical composition and chemistry; Calcium phosphate bone cements. Part 3 Properties of bone cements: Mechanical properties of bone cements; Fracture toughness and fatigue characteristics of bone cements; Dynamic creep in bone cements. Part 4 Enhancing the properties of bone cements; Antibiotic-loaded bone cements; Modifications of bone cements; Design of bioactive bone cement based on organic-inorganic hybrids; Clinical aspects of calcium phosphate bone cements.