Your chance of breaking a bone sometime within the next year is nearly 4%. If you're unlucky enough to need a bone replacement, it'll probably be based on a metal part. Unfortunately, metal parts are ...

Driven by the potential advantages of preserving bone stock and easier implant removal during revision surgery, the use of ...

After undergoing a series of processing steps, a piece of rattan (left) fuses with natural bone (right), opening the door to the use of the wood as a bone-replacement material. A group of scientists ...

Your chance of breaking a bone sometime within the next year is nearly 4%. If you're unlucky enough to need a bone replacement, it'll probably be based on a metal part. Unfortunately, metal parts are ...

You might think that glass has no business acting as a replacement for bone, but it turns out the two materials have many similarities. For a new study published in ACS Nano, researchers developed a ...

Scientists have studied a range of materials as potential candidates for bone implants, including bone from cadavers, artificial wood-based bone, metals, and ceramics. But all of these materials have ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a first-in-world approval for a customized 3D-printed bone replacement. The Patient Specific Talus Spacer is designed to replace the talus bone, ...

Knee replacement surgery is a standard treatment for advanced degenerative arthritis that causes severe pain and walking ...

You can be fit and still have weak bones. Learn the hidden risk factors, warning signs and ways to protect bone health., ...

Defects of the skull and facial bones can pose difficult challenges for plastic and reconstructive surgeons. A synthetic material called hyperelastic bone -- readily produced by 3D-printing -- could ...

Researchers have determined chemical parameters that affect the rate of calcium phosphate ceramic conversion into hydroxyapatite in a simulated body fluid. Shorter carbon chain lengths in the ...