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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Suong-Hyu Hyon, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
BMG Inc., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08K 3/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C08K 3/10 ;
Abstract
A bone fixation material has an initial bending strength at break of more than 250 MPa, maintains its strength more than 3 months in a living body organism and has the characteristic of biodegrading and bioabsorbing into and disappearing from the organism within a range of 6 months to 3 years. The material comprises a polymer with the characteristic of biodegrading and bioabsorbing into the living body organism, a hydroxyapatite and an alkaline inorganic compound.