Minimally Invasive Bioabsorbable Bone Plates for Rigid Internal Fixation
                        of Mandible Fractures

Gaball, Curtis; Lovald, Scott; Baack, Bret; Olson, Garth T.

doi:10.1001/archfaci.2010.109

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“…These devices are currently used for in fixation in craniofacial and maxillofacial applications [41]. Given its highly opportunistic property, there are still unsettled debates over the scanty mechanical properties for other parts of the limbs [42].…”

Section: B Mechanical Stabilization: Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Annals of Biomedical Engineering on Critical Size Bone Defect: A Review

Zainol Hady,

Azmi,

Abdullah

2021

MJoSHT

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Bone can heal on its own through the process known as bone remodelling. Nonetheless, a critical size bone defect will hinder the natural bone-healing process and may not allow for complete fracture healing. These requires surgical intervention by employing the use of bone tissue implants and in need of realignment and fixation for proper fracture healing. Traditional knowledge of bone injury and fracture healing must be comprehended thoroughly for a proper invention of bioengineered material or devices that could enhance the physiological process. Heretofore, engineered materials used to address critical size bone defects have encountered various challenges and improvement be it in bone grafting or choices of mechanical stabilization devices. To date, researchers have been mainly focussing on the alternative material for bone graft substitute albeit the selection of fixators to establish mechanical stabilization are as important. This review highlighted the challenges, improvement and advancement in mechanical stabilization devices and bone graft substitute with respect to the physiological process of bone fracture healing. Identifying these challenges would help assist the researcher in an expedition toward the recovery and restoration of critical size bone defects.

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Section: B Mechanical Stabilization: Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Annals of Biomedical Engineering on Critical Size Bone Defect: A Review

Zainol Hady,

Azmi,

Abdullah

2021

MJoSHT

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“…All these drawbacks had driven the development of bioresorbable materials as such as PLA, PGA and the co-polymer a possible replacement for metallic devices [3,4]. Various techniques of fabrication have been explored and used.…”

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confidence: 99%

Indirect Additive Manufacturing Processing of Poly-Lactide-co-Glycolide

Khan

German

Dalgarno

2015

AMM

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The research and development of biomaterials have brought about new treatments in regenerative medicine. The research work presented in this paper focus on the use of Poly-Lactide-co-glycolide (PLGA) in the fabrication of patient specific fracture fixation plate by indirect additive manufacturing method. The use of biopolymers such as PLGA has been seen as a solution to the problems of stress shield and post-surgery inherent in biometal fixation plates. This paper discusses the consequence of this processing method on characteristics and properties of the PLGA. PLGA of ratio 50:50, 65:35 and 85:15 was processed and compared. The granules of PLGA were positioned in the cavity of the stereolithography (SLA) mould and heated under constant pressure with sintering temperature of 73°C for 2.0hours. Both the variation in samples fabricated from this process with the designed model and the changes in material characteristics are below 10%. The flexural strength for PLGA of ratio 50:50, 65:35 and 85:15 is 73.8±2.3MPa, 75.0±2.8, 60.0±11.7, respectively. The characteristics and mechanical tests indicate that the results were comparable with conventional processing of PLGA.

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