Calcitec, Inc.

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Chao-Chin Ning

Chien-Ping Ju

Jiin-Huey Chern Lin

Chih-Hung Tsai

Yin-Chun Tien

Chung-Po Chao

Hsuan-I Huang

The present invention discloses a method for making a porous calcium phosphate article including i) preparing a shaped article from a paste containing a calcium phosphate cement, a pore-forming powder and a setting liquid; ii) immersing the shaped article in an immersing liquid for a period of time so that the pore-forming powder is dissolved in the immersing liquid, creating pores in said shaped article; and iii) removing the resulting porous shaped article from the immersing liquid, wherein the resulting porous shaped article has an improved compressive strength. The porous shaped calcium phosphate article of the present invention may be used as a tissue-engineered scaffold, medical implant or a reinforcing constituent of a composite.

Method for making a porous calcium phosphate article

The present invention provides an amalgamatable dental alloy powder for making an amalgam having a low initial mercury vapor release rate having a composition comprising 50-80 wt % Ag; 10-30 wt % Cu, and 10-35 wt % Sn, and optionally less than 7 wt % of Pd, which is prepared by subjecting a single-alloy powder having a particle size ranging from 1 to 55 microns with a majority thereof having a particle size less than 20 microns to a heat treatment, or separately subjecting a Ag&mdash;Cu&mdash;Sn powder having a particle size ranging from 1 to 70 microns with a majority thereof having a particle size less than 30 microns and a Ag&mdash;Cu&mdash;Pd powder having a particle size ranging from 1 to 100 microns with a majority thereof having a particle size less than 45 microns to heat treatments, and subjecting the heat treated powders to a pickling treatment.

Amalgamatable dental alloy powder having an effect of reducing initial mercury vapor release rate

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