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Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Plastics > Resins, Synthetic > Bone Cements
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Plastics > Resins, Synthetic > Bone Cements
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Plastics > Resins, Synthetic > Bone Cements
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Dental Materials > Resins, Synthetic > Bone Cements
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Dental Materials > Resins, Synthetic > Bone Cements

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Bone Cements  

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  • Bone Cement
  • Bone Glue
  • Bone Glues
  • Bone Paste
  • Bone Pastes
  • Cement, Bone
  • Cements, Bone
  • Glue, Bone
  • Glues, Bone
  • Paste, Bone
  • Pastes, Bone

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Scope note

  • Adhesives used to fix prosthetic devices to bones and to cement bone to bone in difficult fractures. Synthetic resins are commonly used as cements. A mixture of monocalcium phosphate, monohydrate, alpha-tricalcium phosphate, and calcium carbonate with a sodium phosphate solution is also a useful bone paste.

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