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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2004
Anthony William Miles, Bath, GB;
Irene Gladys Turner, Wiltshire, GB;
Jonathan Paul Gittings, Caerphilly, GB;
Anthony William Miles, Bath, GB;
Irene Gladys Turner, Wiltshire, GB;
Jonathan Paul Gittings, Caerphilly, GB;
University of Bath, Bath, GB;
Abstract
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.