Achieving adequate disinfection and preventing reinfection is the major goal in endodontic treatment. Variation canal morphology open porosity of dentine prevents achieving complete disinfection. Questionable biocompatibility materials as well a lack sealing ability questions usefulness current obturation methods. With novel approach based on use boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrodes having show...

Synthesis from mixed-anionic aqueous solutions is a novel approach to obtain active powders for bioceramics production in the CaO-SiO2-P2O5-Na2O system. In this work, were prepared using precipitation of following precursors: Ca(NO3)2 and Na2HPO4 (CaP); Na2SiO3 (CaSi); Ca(NO3)2, (CaPSi). Phase composition CaP powder included brushite CaHPO4?2H2O CaSi calcium silicate hydrate. CaPSi consisted am...

Microporous ceramic material, based on β-tricalcium phosphate β-Ca3(PO4)2 with grain size 2–5 μm, pore smaller than 10 mm, and density 1.22 g/cm3 corresponding to ~40% of the theoretical (3.07 g/cm3) β-Ca3(PO4)2, was obtained from a powder mixture given molar ratio Ca/P = 1.5 after firing at 1100 °C. A homogenized synthetic dicalcium hydrogen phosphates 1 calcium citrate tetrahydrate Ca3(C6H5O7...

Due to a significant influence of strontium (Sr) on bone regeneration, Sr substituted β-tricalcium phosphate (Sr-TCP) cement is prepared and investigated by short- long-term time-resolved techniques. For short-term investigations, energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, and, for the first time, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy techniques are applied. studies, angular dispe...

INTRODUCTION The characterization of urinary calculi using noninvasive methods has the potential to affect clinical management. CT remains the gold standard for diagnosis of urinary calculi, but has not reliably differentiated varying stone compositions. Dual-energy CT (DECT) has emerged as a technology to improve CT characterization of anatomic structures. This study aims to assess the ability...

The P-RoC process – the phosphorus recovery straight from the aqueous phase by crystallisation of calcium phosphate – was developed in order to simultaneously remove and recover phosphorus from municipal wasteand industrial process waters by applying calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) compounds or synthesised tobermorite pellets as crystallisation seed materials. At first, the experiments were perf...

The effects of solid state synthesis process parameters (time and temperature) and primary calcium precursor on the amount of produced α-tricalcium phosphate (Ca3(PO4)2 or α -TCP) have been investigated. α-TCP was synthesized by firing of stoichiometric amount of calcium carbonate and monetite in first group and calcium carbonate and brushite in the second group, once at 1350°C for 3,6,8,16 h d...