Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Calcium phosphate bone cement is a new kind of self-setting and injectable bone substitute material. Plenty of experiments have proved that there is a great progress in clinical areas of this material due to its good bioactivity, biocompatible and stable physical and chemical properties.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the status and research progress of calcium phosphate bone cement.
METHODS: A computer-based online search of papers published from January 1999 to October 2011 related to new bone cement was performed in CNKI database, Science direct database and Pubmed database using the key words of “phosphates, silicates, bone cement, bone substitute” by screening titles and abstracts. The documents associated with calcium phosphate bone cement were selected, and those published recently or in authoritative journals were preferred in the same field. Totally 85 articles were obtained in initial retrieval, 13 of them were chosen to summarize based on inclusion criteria.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Calcium phosphate bone cement as a new kind of self-setting bio-material possesses better physical and chemical properties and biological properties compared with traditional bone cement materials. However, the researchers should pay more attention to investigate and improve the properties of this material in order to develop various types of calcium phosphate bone cement and afford novel ideas for repair of bone defects.