The effect of a glassy carbon additive to surgical cement on its durability and adaptation in the organism
Journal Title: Engineering of Biomaterials / Inżynieria Biomateriałów - Year 2015, Vol 18, Issue 131
Abstract
This paper focuses on the issue of modification of PMMA-based surgical cement with glassy carbon in the form of powder with 40-160 μm granulation, in the amount of 1.6-3.1 w/w %, originally in order to lower the polymerization temperature, and then to increase the durability of cement in the organism environment and to improve biological properties of the cement-bone interphase boundary. Examinations were conducted of the polymerization of both unmodified and modified cement. Simulating a load of cement when the human gait, as well as the impact of the environment of the body, low cycle fatigue tests were carried, using the unmodified and modified cement samples in the initial state, aged in Ringer’s solution and after irradiation with X-RAY. Cement doped with glassy carbon was implanted into femoral bone of experimental animals (rabbits). Under low-cycle fatigue conditions the PMMA-based cement modified with a glassy carbon additive showed a lower cyclic creep rate compared to cement with no additive. After ageing in Ringer’s solution and X-ray exposure the cement modified with glassy carbon retained its viscoelastic properties to a larger degree than the cement with no additive. Therefore, the glassy carbon additive limited the progress of the ageing process of surgical cement. The results of microscopic examinations of histological specimens extracted from laboratory rabbits implanted with cement modified with glassy carbon did not reveal any properties which would indicate increased intensity of pathological processes. A physical modification of bone cement by using a glassy carbon additive caused a decrease in the maximum temperature of polymerizing system.
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A. Balin
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