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The use of bone grafts permits the filling of a bone defect without risk of virus transmission. In this work, pure bioactive glass (46S6) and zinc-doped bioactive glass (46S6Zn10) with 0.1 wt% zinc are used to elaborate highly bioactive materials by melting and rapid quenching. Cylinders of both types of glasses were soaked in a simulated body fluid (SBF) solution with the aim of determining the effect of zinc addition as a trace element on the chemical reactivity and bioactivity of glass. Several physico-chemical characterization methods such as x-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance methods, with particular focus on the latter, were chosen to investigate the fine structural behaviour of pure and Zn-doped bioactive glasses as a function of the soaking time of immersion in SBF. Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) was used to measure the concentrations of Ca and P ions in the SBF solution after different durations of immersion. The effect of the investigated samples on the proliferation rate of human osteoblast cells was assessed by the 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, and tested on two different sizes of pure and zinc-doped glasses in powder form, with particle sizes that ranged between 40 to 63 µm and 500 to 600 µm. The obtained results showed the delay release of ions by Zn-doped glass (46S6Zn10) and the slower CaP deposition. Cytotoxicity and cell viability were affected by the particle size of the glass. The release rate of ions was found to influence the cell viability.

Melt-derived glasses in the system SiO(2)-CaO-Na(2)O-P(2)O(5) were synthesized pure or doped with magnesium from 0.4 to 1.2 wt %, for applications as biomaterials in bony surgery. This chemical element has been chosen because of its high physiological interest. Its introduction for different contents in melt derived glasses has never been studied. The bioactivity of glasses was assessed by immersion of the samples in the simulated body fluid solution. Changes in glass surface morphology and composition after immersion were evaluated by several physico-chemical techniques. The aim of this work was to characterize the formation of the apatite-like layer at the glass surface, after in vitro assays and to evaluate the kinetic reaction between the glass and the surrounding synthetic fluids. Results indicate that magnesium influences the formation and the evolution of the newly formed layers: (1) it promotes the dissolution of the silica network, (2) it increases the thickness of the silica gel layer formed conventionally prior to the apatite-like layer, and (3) it slows down the crystallization of the apatite layer. However, the intensity of these effects depends on the content of magnesium introduced in the glass matrix.

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