The University of Bath

Jonathan Paul Gittings

Anthony William Miles

Irene Gladys Turner

A method of fabricating a bone substitute material comprises the steps of providing a foam material () having an open cell structure, distorting the shape of the foam material () and holding the material in a distorted shape, coating the walls of the cells of the foam material with a ceramic slip (), removing the foam material, and sintering the ceramic slip to form a bone substitute material that is approximately a positive image of the distorted foam material (). In another method, a granular bone material is formed from a multiplicity of pieces of foam that are not distorted.

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Caerphilly, United Kingdom

Jonathan Paul Gittings