“…From the chemical point of view, the developments include synthesis of novel ion-substituted calcium orthophosphates [26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57]. From the material point of view, the major research topics include nanodimensional and nanocrystalline structures [822,823,824], amorphous compounds [825], organic-inorganic biocomposites and hybrid biomaterials [353], biphasic, triphasic and multiphasic formulations [121], as well as various types of structures, forms and shapes. The latter comprise fibers, whiskers and filaments [241,826,827,828,829,830,831,832,833,834,835,836,837,838,839], macro-, micro- and nano-sized spheres, beads and granules [839,840,841,842,843,844,…”