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Uses Of Biogalasses
Prajeeshvaran

What is the use of Bioglass

Mainly to repair bone and dental defects and, over the years, many other bioactive glass
compositions have been proposed for innovative biomedical applications, such as soft
tissue repair and drug delivery. Bioactive glasses have been used as bone fillers in the
clinic for more than two decades. First developed by Hench et al. (1971), bioactive glass
was in the Na2O-CaO-SiO2-P2O5 system and showed good biocompatibility and bone
bonding ability. Since the advent of 45S5 Bioglass, bioactive glasses with different
compositions have been developed and explored in bone tissue engineering applications.
What is the composition of Bioglass?
Bioglass is a family of bioactive glasses composed of silicon dioxide, sodium oxide, calcium
oxide, and phosphorous pentoxide. This material yields a surface pore structure, 5–20 nm, with
excellent surface area, pore volume, cytocompatibility, and ability to induce apatite formation.

Clinical applications of bioglasses have focused on osteogenesis.From this came an increase in

research on the loading of therapeutic agents to help enhance the regeneration of the surrounding
tissues.

What is the main focus of Bioglass?

The interest in bioactive glasses now focuses on their ability to

stimulate new bone growth and its potential to be used in the
development of constructs that can stimulate the body’s own

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regenerative mechanisms to restore damaged bone to its original
state and function.

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