摘要 |
The invention relates to bioactive, biocompatible, bioabsorbable surgical composites and devices, such as pins, screws, plates, tacks, bolts intramedullary nails, suture anchors, staples or other devices which are applied in bone-to-bone, soft tissue-to-bone or soft tissue-to-soft tissue fixation or in fixation of bioabsorbable and/or biostable implants in, and/or on, bone or soft-tissue, which composites and devices are fabricated of bioabsorbable polymers, copolymers or polymer alloys that are self-reinforced and contain ceramic particles or reinforcement fibres and porosity. Typical example is crushed particles o f bioactive glass spheridized by flame spraying used to form a composite with poly (L/DL) lactide which is then extruded and then reinforce d by uniaxial die-drawing.
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