Decades of research in orthopaedics has culminated the quest for formidable yet resorbable biomaterials using bioactive materials. Brushite cements most salient features embrace high biocompatibility, bioresorbability, osteoconductivity, self-setting characteristics, handling, and injectability properties. Such type materials is also effectively applied as drug delivery systems. However, brushi...

Abstract. A rich association of primary guano minerals, including taranakite, hydroxylapatite, brushite and gypsum with relicts illite, kaolinite, alpha (low) quartz calcite, was identified in the fossil bat deposit from Gura Dobrogei Cave, Dobrogea County, Romania. Gypsum Ca phosphates developed preferentially on carbonate bedrock or fallen blocks mass, whereas taranakite clay-rich, detritic s...

In the early 1980s, scientists at the American Dental Association Le Geros et al. [1] and Brown & Chow [2-5] first explored the possibility of generating a monolithic calcium orthophosphate ceramic at ambient or body temperature via a cementation reaction among one or more component of calcium orthophosphate precursors. Presently this type of materials is referred to as calcium phosphate cement...